Enough is Enough - September 15, 2025

Thank you. I thank you very much, Chairman Cole. I rise in support of my amendment which states that none of the funds made available to the Treasury Department by this bill can be used to prevent the release of financial records.

After all, here we are marking up the financial services and general government appropriations bill, including suspicious activity reports, SARS, relating to the Epstein Maxwell Congress. Colleagues, enough is enough. It is past time that we have the full transparency into the financing of the Epstein horrific sex trafficking network. We quite simply need to follow the money.

This is something that has already been bipartisan in its support. And I invite through this amendment further bipartisan support. Senator Widen, for example, for years has been investigating the financing of Epstein’s sex trafficking network and over this past weekend, as part pf his committee’s investigation, Oversight Chairman James Comr sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Bessant requesting that the department produce certain SARS relevant to his investigation. This information is critical for effective congressional oversight. We need to understand the scope of the operation to secure justice for the victims and to hold those involved accountable. It is our duty after all to seek justice and to prevent further harm. As Mr. Hoyer said, you don’t traffic a thousand children over the course of many years and just arrest two people. That just simply doesn’t happen.

There are perpetrators out there who probably have gone on to injure other children and women. We know Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell were not the only criminals in this case.

Numerous prominent business were connected to Epstein in ways one can only describe as abnormal. We need to know if these transactions raised alarms and if not what went wrong so that we can prevent something like this from ever happening again or happening right now.

Additionally, the girls and women they were criminally assaulted. They were raped. They were trafficked. They were molested. They were groomed. They deserve full honesty, transparency about what happened to them. And they deserve a chance to heal if possible and where possible. I commend the victims and the survivors and the survivors families for their strength in coming forward and coming here. May they lead us out of this dark period.

I’m sad to say that I fear my amendment will not gather the positive support from my Republican colleagues. I sincerely hope you will join me on this amendment. Let’s get the SARS. Let’s not allow for the SARS to be blocked by our own Congress, our own government, by our own acts as appropriators. I want to read a little more of what onemy colleague were was reading today.

Today victims of Jeffery Epstein gave emotional accounts of sexual abuse on Wednesday here at the Capitol. They spoke at the steps of the US Capitol and called for lawmakers to release more files about the convicted sex offender.

One woman, Lisa Phillips, said the group had begun compiling a confidential list of Epstein associates who they were say were involved in abuse. Quote “We will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world” end quote.” She said, “It will be done by survivors and for survivors. Let’s stand with survivors as members of Congress. Let’s stand with them and make sure everyone is treated to justice.”

And I ask for support for my amendment.