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Censuring and condemning Delegate Stacey Plaskett and removing her from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for conduct that reflects discreditably on the House of Representatives for colluding with convicted felony sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing.

Censuring and condemning Delegate Stacey Plaskett and removing her from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for conduct that reflects discreditably on the House of Representatives for colluding with convicted felony sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing.

Introduced Nov 18, 2025

Latest action (Nov 18, 2025) Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Referred to
Ethics Committee
Policy area
Congress
Issues
Civil Rights
Legislative subjects (5)
Congressional committeesHouse Permanent Select Committee on IntelligenceLegislative rules and procedureMembers of CongressVirgin Islands

Summary

This House resolution would censure and condemn Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the United States Virgin Islands for alleged inappropriate coordination with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing in February 2019. The resolution would remove Plaskett from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The resolution directs the House Committee on Ethics to conduct a full investigation into the extent of Plaskett's ties to Epstein and any potential further improprieties.

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Sponsor (1)
21 cosponsors

Actions (17)
  1. Nov 18, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
  2. Nov 18, 2025 On agreeing to the resolution Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 209 - 214, 3 Present (Roll no. 297). · house
  3. Nov 18, 2025 Failed of passage/not agreed to in House On agreeing to the resolution Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 209 - 214, 3 Present (Roll no. 297).
  4. Nov 18, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4761-4762) · house
  5. Nov 18, 2025 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on H.Res. 888, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the resolution and by voice vote, announced the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Raskin demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced. · house
  6. Nov 18, 2025 The previous question was ordered without objection. · house
  7. Nov 18, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. · house
  8. Nov 18, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H. Res. 888. · house
  9. Nov 18, 2025 On motion to refer Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 213 - 214 (Roll no. 293). · house
  10. Nov 18, 2025 The previous question on the motion to refer was ordered without objection. · house
  11. Nov 18, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the Clark (MA) motion to refer H. Res. 888. · house
  12. Nov 18, 2025 Ms. Clark (MA) moved to refer to Ethics. (CR H4738) · house
  13. Nov 18, 2025 Considered as privileged matter. (consideration: CR H4737-4745; text: CR H4737-4738) · house
  14. Nov 18, 2025 QUESTION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE - Mr. Norman rose to a question of the privileges of the House and offered the resolution. The Chair directed the Clerk to report the resolution. Upon examination of the resolution, the Chair determined that the resolution did constitute a question of the privileges of the House. · house
  15. Nov 18, 2025 NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO OFFER RESOLUTION - Mr. Norman notified the House of his intent to offer a privileged resolution pursuant to clause 2(a)(1) of rule IX. The Chair announced that a determination will be made at the time designated for consideration of the resolution. · house
  16. Nov 18, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ethics. · house
  17. Nov 18, 2025 Submitted in House

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 18, 2025

Mr. Norman (for himself, Mr. Harris of Maryland, Mr. Roy, Ms. Boebert, Mr. Self, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Crane, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Moore of Alabama, Mr. Brecheen, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina, Mr. Clyde, Mr. Harris of North Carolina, Mr. Donalds, Mr. Cloud, Mr. Gill of Texas, Mr. Burlison, Mr. Baumgartner, Mr. Fine, and Mrs. Luna) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ethics

RESOLUTION

Censuring and condemning Delegate Stacey Plaskett and removing her from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for conduct that reflects discreditably on the House of Representatives for colluding with convicted felony sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a congressional hearing.

Whereas Stacey Plaskett, the Delegate representing the United States Virgin Islands in the House of Representatives, inappropriately coordinated with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a congressional hearing in February 2019; Whereas Delegate Plaskett was actively coached by Epstein during the hearing, received instructions on specific lines of questioning, and was congratulated afterwards with the message “Good work”; Whereas Jeffrey Epstein was a known, convicted felony sex offender, having pled guilty and been convicted for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute in a plea deal in 2008, and served a 13-month sentence; Whereas, in the course of that investigation, the FBI compiled reports on dozens of confirmed minors who credibly alleged sexual abuse by Epstein; Whereas Epstein was under further Federal investigation beginning in November 2018, two months before Delegate Plaskett’s recently revealed text exchange during a congressional hearing, following investigative reporting by the Miami Herald detailing Epstein’s controversial 2008 plea deal and highlighting accounts of his victims; Whereas Epstein was arrested in July 2019 and charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, and he was later found dead in the New York Metropolitan Correctional Center; Whereas, according to documents released from Epstein’s estate, during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing featuring testimony from Michael Cohen, disgraced former attorney to President Donald J. Trump, Delegate Plaskett coordinated her line of questioning with Jeffrey Epstein in real-time over text message while the hearing was underway; Whereas Delegate Plaskett, who previously served as an assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division, is known to have had extensive political, personal, and professional connections with Epstein after his conviction as a sex offender up to the time of his arrest and then death in 2019; Whereas Delegate Plaskett’s relationship with Epstein stands in stark contrast to the public image she has curated for herself as a defender of justice and accountability while secretly collaborating with an individual whose crimes against vulnerable women and children shocked the nation; Whereas Delegate Plaskett’s willingness to receive instructions on official congressional proceedings from Epstein, a convicted felony sex offender with deeply concerning international associations, is especially alarming and inappropriate given her own past service in the U.S. Department of Justice and her current role on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and raises serious questions about Delegate Plaskett’s judgement, integrity, and fitness to serve; and Whereas such associations erode public trust in Congress, particularly when they involve using input from a sex offender to advance partisan attacks during official proceedings: Now, therefore, be it Resolved,

SECTION 1. CENSURE OF DELEGATE STACEY PLASKETT.

The House of Representatives—

(1) censures and condemns Delegate Stacey Plaskett for inappropriate coordination with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a Congressional Hearing, which reflects discreditably on the House of Representatives; and

(2) directs the Committee on Ethics to conduct a full investigation into the extent of Plaskett’s ties to Epstein and any potential further improprieties.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL FROM HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE.

The following named Member be, and is hereby, removed from the following committee of the House of Representatives: Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Ms. Plaskett. <all>

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