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The Republican-led House oversight committee has released more than 33,000 pages of documents related to the federal investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender whose long friendship with Donald Trump has raised questions about what the president knew and when he knew it.

The records were posted online as the White House urged Republican lawmakers not to support a discharge petition from Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, and Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, which would force the release of all of the Epstein files.

Asked by Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, whether or not he supports the discharge petition, James Comer, the Republican chair of the committee, said on Tuesday that there was no need for that vote since the committee had now subpoenaed the records. The question of how many of those files were obtained by the committee, and how many will be released by the committee remains unanswered.

However, Massie told Axios on Tuesday that the selection of documents released by the committee would not stop him from trying to get a majority of House members to sign his petition to force a vote for the release of all of the files. “My staff has done a quick look at it and it looks like a bunch of redacted documents and nothing new, so it’s not going to suffice,” the congressman said.

The Massie and Khanna petition would require the attorney general, Pam Bondi, to publicly release all unclassified Epstein records in the possession of the justice department, including the FBI and US attorneys’ offices.

Massie and Khanna have scheduled a news conference with some of Epstein’s victims on Wednesday.

Reporters reviewing the files released by Comer’s committee agreed that so far, they appear to mostly contain information that was already publicly known.