Watch live: Senate agrees to pass bill to release Jeffrey Epstein files

From USA TODAY.

Both chambers of Congress nearly unanimously passed a bill on Tuesday, Nov. 18, to compel the Justice Department to release as much information as possible about the late accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The success of the measure, which will immediately go to President Donald Trump’s desk, was a remarkable show of bipartisan force. It also was the culmination of a rare rebuke from congressional Republicans of Trump, whose decades-old ties to Epstein have recently come back to haunt him.

The bill passed overwhelmingly on Capitol Hill Tuesday, with only one dissenter in the House of Representatives and unanimous support in the Senate. The fast-tracking came despite GOP concerns over protecting the privacy of victims. The president has echoed similar grievances, repeatedly referring to the controversy as the "Epstein hoax."