LINCOLN — Every member of Nebraska’s all-Republican congressional delegation voted for a bill to compel the U.S. Department of Justice to release all files related to its investigation into late Florida sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

After months of stalling by House GOP leaders and White House pressure to prevent the vote — with a federal government shutdown in between — the House voted 427-1 to advance the bill that had to be forced onto the House floor last week by a bipartisan discharge petition.

Nebraska U.S. Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., had told the Examiner in September that he would vote for releasing the files if the measure reached the floor after not signing the discharge petition. Bacon has criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the files.

He said he supported the release

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