The US Congress will force the release of documents relating to the investigation of the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The disgraced financier was arrested in New York in 2019 on sex trafficking charges involving allegations that date back to the early 2000s .
He was later found dead in his prison cell.
President Donald Trump had previously fought hard to head off a vote in Congress, but in a sudden about-face on the weekend, urged Republicans to vote for it.
ABC NewsRadio’s Thomas Oriti spoke with Professor Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer who served in the George W Bush administration, and a Law Professor at the University of Minnesota.