As the longest government shutdown in US history winds up, a fresh bout of political infighting is brewing over the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Politicians have returned to Capitol Hill and picked up where they left off several weeks ago.

For Democrats and some Republicans, that work included a petition for a vote to release documents related to the investigation into the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Before the shutdown, the petition had amassed all but one of the signatures it needed from politicians in the House of Representatives.

Democratic representative Adelita Grijalva was due to become the final name added after she won a special election in Arizona more than seven weeks ago, but the shutdown had put a pin in those plans until she could be sworn

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