Five members of the House of Representatives missed the vote on a bill requiring the Justice Department to release of files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The US Senate on Tuesday (local time) unanimously agreed to pass the bipartisan, House-backed bill requiring the Department of Justice to make the Epstein Files public, CNN reported.

In a rare and striking display of bipartisan unity, the House of Representatives approved the “Epstein Files Transparency Act" by an overwhelming margin of 427 to 1, followed almost immediately by a u...