House Speaker Mike Johnson revealed that representatives in Congress’s lower chamber would vote on whether to release the Department of Justice‘s Jeffrey Epstein case files next week.

Johnson had kept the House of Representatives from convening during the government shutdown, in a ploy that many observers believed was a way to avoid the question of the Epstein files. When the House gathered to consider an agreement to reopen the government put forth by the Senate, representatives also forced the issue of a vote on releasing the files.

“We’re going to put that on the floor for a full vote when we get back next week,” Johnson told reporters on Capitol Hill.

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