Ahead of Tuesday's House vote, survivors pushing for the release of the Epstein files criticized the chamber's slow progress and announced a survivor-led, non-partisan movement to help rewrite laws and build protections for victims like themselves.

It's been decades since Jeffrey Epstein laid his hands on these women — or allowed other men to do so.

On Capitol Hill Tuesday, his survivors spoke with force about his abuse, and against a government they say allowed him to live unscathed for so long.

"We are exhausted from surviving the trauma and then surviving the politics that swirl around it," said survivor Wendy Avis.

"This is not an issue of a few corrupt Democrats or a few corrupt Republicans. This is a case of institutional betrayal," said survivor Annie Farmer.

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