A motion to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein’s co-pimp Ghislaine Maxwell passed the House Oversight by voice vote on Tuesday, Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman reports on a pretty dramatic escalation.

Jesus Dork Mike Johnson, who ground the House to a halt on Monday night over repeated moves by Dems and not a small number of Republicans to force votes compelling the release of the Epstein files said “There is no majority in the history of this body that can wield power unless it stands together” and then in a longer statement tried to slip in some bromides about being “careful” about releasing files with “I’ve been on record very clearly that I believe in maximum transparency. I think every single House Republican will say the same thing. In fact, they told me that publicly and privately… We want maximum transparency. We also understand the other part of that duty is that we have to protect innocent victims. Okay, we have to do both things at the same time. What do we mean by that? Look involved in the Epstein evil. Okay, which is what it was? Let’s call it what it was.”

“There are innocent victims of those unspeakable sex crimes, okay? It some of them were minors, some of them were not. When the Epstein records are turned over to the public, which we must do as quickly as possible, we have to also be very judicious and careful about protecting the innocent. I think everybody in the country should understand the necessity of that,” Johnson continued.

Johnson then pulled the plug on the House until September 2nd, canceling Thursday’s session, and yeah a dead man just ground the United States Congress to a complete halt for a month and a half.