WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Lafayette, was the only representative to vote Tuesday against a bill forcing the Trump administration to release the complete investigatory records of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Higgins said in a statement that the documents’ release could endanger the innocent.

“As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt,” Higgins said.

The House voted 427 to 1 to send the Epstein Files Transparency Act to the U.S. Senate for consideration.

A member of the House Oversight committee, Higgins s

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