WASHINGTON — The House may be out of Washington, but Democrats in the Senate are picking up right where their House colleagues left off in calling for the release of the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
This time it was Sen. Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat, who took to the Senate floor in an attempt to quickly pass legislation calling on the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files. His attempt to speed the resolution through the Senate was halted by Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma.
“This is nothing more than political theater,” Mullin said on the Senate floor, while offering his own resolution that called on the federal judiciary to allow the Department of Justice’s request to release grand jury testimony in the case.
Still, Democrats were n