The House voted 209-214-3 on Tuesday against censuring and condemning Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., and removing her from the House Intelligence Committee over texts with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Documents in the recent Epstein files release showed she was texting with Epstein while she was in the middle of a congressional hearing in 2019. In a real-time text conversation during a consequential congressional hearing on Feb. 27, 2019, where lawmakers questioned President Donald Trump's former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen , Epstein fed Plaskett, the nonvoting delegate from the US Virgin Islands, information that might be useful during her upcoming line of questioning, the files showed. In the recently released Epstein records, Plaskett's name is redacted -- but in impassioned s

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