Kathmandu, Nov. 19 -- US Congress has cleared a plan that tells the US Justice Department to release its records on Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender and financier, the BBC reported.The House backed the proposal with a 427 to 1 vote, and the Senate moved it forward without holding a formal vote, sending it on a fast track. The move came soon after Donald Trump shifted his position and encouraged lawmakers to make the files public after many of his supporters demanded transparency, according to the BBC.

Trump returned to the spotlight last week when more than 20,000 pages of case documents surfaced, some of which mentioned him. The White House rejected any suggestion of wrongdoing. Only one lawmaker, Republican Clay Higgins of L...