Republican House Members in the Epstein Files

Full-Corpus Search Results for All 221 Republican U.S. House Members (119th Congress)

Generated 2026-02-12 from full_text_corpus.db (1,380,937 documents, 2,731,796 pages across 12 DOJ datasets)

METHODOLOGY

Each official's name was searched as an exact quoted phrase in the FTS5 full-text index of all 12 DOJ Epstein file datasets (218 GB total). For officials with significant hit counts, a deeper context analysis was performed — sampling 5-10 document snippets to categorize the nature of each mention.

Categories:
- DIRECT — Direct personal involvement: emails, meetings, financial ties, contact lists
- INVESTIGATION — Referenced in Epstein investigation/prosecution documents
- POLITICAL — Political/legislative context: oversight, public statements, policy
- MIXED — Multiple categories present across mentions
- NEWS — News clips or media references unrelated to Epstein
- FALSE POSITIVE — Name matches a different person entirely

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• 221 officials searched
• 94 appear in the corpus (127 with zero mentions)
• 1 with MIXED mention types (multiple categories)
• 2 confirmed FALSE POSITIVES (different person with same name)
• 91 appear only in news coverage unrelated to Epstein
• 127 not found in any document

Officials with Mixed Mentions

Barry Loudermilk (U.S. House Georgia District 11) — 40 documents, 41 pages

There are TWO different Barry Loudermilks in this corpus. (1) The majority of hits refer to a Barry Loudermilk who is a construction/development professional (NOT the congressman) whom Epstein was considering hiring. Documents show his resume was sent to Epstein, Epstein offered him a potential full-time job, and he was scheduled for site visits to Epstein's properties. His company Orion Group Holdings worked in marine construction, and he had prior development experience in Turks & Caicos. (2) Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) the congressman appears in separate political news coverage about January 6 investigations, FBI cell phone data disputes, and China-related threats. The congressman has no documented connection to Epstein.
Key documents: EFTA02258978, EFTA02622226, EFTA01022280, EFTA01022281, EFTA01013201

Confirmed False Positives

John James (U.S. House Michigan District 10) — 49 documents

The 'John James' in these documents is NOT the congressman John James (R-MI). It is a completely different person: John James, a Senior Solicitor at Johnson Lawyers in Adelaide, Australia. The documents are from a voluminous complaint by an Australian targeted individual alleging government conspiracy, intellectual property theft, and medical business plan fraud in South Australia. This person's grievance filings were submitted as tips/complaints to the Epstein document collection but have no connection to Epstein or the Michigan congressman.

Scott Fitzgerald (U.S. House Wisconsin District 5) — 22 documents

All hits are for F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American novelist and author of The Great Gatsby. Multiple documents compare Epstein to Jay Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's fictional character. Other references are to literary discussion events and book clubs. Zero hits relate to Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI).

COMPLETE LISTING BY STATE

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Officials with Zero Mentions

The following officials do not appear in any of the 1,380,937 documents in the corpus:

• Robert Aderholt (Alabama)
• Barry Moore (Alabama)
• Nicholas Begich (Alaska)
• Aumua Amata Radewagen (American Samoa)
• Juan Ciscomani (Arizona)
• Eli Crane (Arizona)
• Abraham Hamadeh (Arizona)
• Bruce Westerman (Arkansas)
• Steve Womack (Arkansas)
• Ken Calvert (California)
• Vince Fong (California)
• David G. Valadao (California)
• Jeff Crank (Colorado)
• Gabe Evans (Colorado)
• Jeff Hurd (Colorado)
• Aaron Bean (Florida)
• Gus M. Bilirakis (Florida)
• Kat Cammack (Florida)
• Byron Donalds (Florida)
• Neal Dunn (Florida)
• Randy Fine (Florida)
• Scott Franklin (Florida)
• John Rutherford (Florida)
• Maria Elvira Salazar (Florida)
• Rick Allen (Georgia)
• Earl Carter (Georgia)
• James Moylan (Guam)
• Russ Fulcher (Idaho)
• Michael K. Simpson (Idaho)
• Jim Baird (Indiana)
• Erin Houchin (Indiana)
• Mark Messmer (Indiana)
• Jefferson Shreve (Indiana)
• Victoria Spartz (Indiana)
• Marlin A. Stutzman (Indiana)
• Rudy Yakym (Indiana)
• Randy Feenstra (Iowa)
• Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa)
• Zach Nunn (Iowa)
• Tracey Mann (Kansas)
• Derek Schmidt (Kansas)
• Andy Barr (Kentucky)
• James Comer Jr. (Kentucky)
• Julia Letlow (Louisiana)
• Andrew Harris (Maryland)
• Bill Huizenga (Michigan)
• Lisa McClain (Michigan)
• Tim Walberg (Michigan)
• Brad Finstad (Minnesota)
• Michelle Fischbach (Minnesota)
• Pete Stauber (Minnesota)
• Mike Ezell (Mississippi)
• Michael Guest (Mississippi)
• Mark Alford (Missouri)
• Eric Burlison (Missouri)
• Sam Graves (Missouri)
• Bob Onder (Missouri)
• Troy Downing (Montana)
• Ryan K. Zinke (Montana)
• Mike Flood (Nebraska)
• Adrian Smith (Nebraska)
• Mark Amodei (Nevada)
• Thomas Kean Jr. (New Jersey)
• Andrew Garbarino (New York)
• Nicholas J. LaLota (New York)
• Nick Langworthy (New York)
• Michael Lawler (New York)
• Chuck Edwards (North Carolina)
• Pat Harrigan (North Carolina)
• Brad Knott (North Carolina)
• Addison McDowell (North Carolina)
• Timothy K. Moore (North Carolina)
• Gregory Murphy (North Carolina)
• David Rouzer (North Carolina)
• Julie Fedorchak (North Dakota)
• Troy Balderson (Ohio)
• Mike Carey (Ohio)
• David Joyce (Ohio)
• Max Miller (Ohio)
• Michael Rulli (Ohio)
• Stephanie Bice (Oklahoma)
• Josh Brecheen (Oklahoma)
• Kevin Hern (Oklahoma)
• Frank Lucas (Oklahoma)
• Cliff Bentz (Oregon)
• Rob Bresnahan Jr. (Pennsylvania)
• Ryan Mackenzie (Pennsylvania)
• Dan Meuser (Pennsylvania)
• Glenn Thompson (Pennsylvania)
• Sheri Biggs (South Carolina)
• Russell Fry (South Carolina)
• William Timmons (South Carolina)
• Dusty Johnson (South Dakota)
• Matt Van Epps (Tennessee)
• Charles J. Fleischmann (Tennessee)
• Diana Harshbarger (Tennessee)
• David Kustoff (Tennessee)
• John Rose (Tennessee)
• Jodey Arrington (Texas)
• Brian Babin (Texas)
• Michael Cloud (Texas)
• Daniel Crenshaw (Texas)
• Monica De La Cruz (Texas)
• Beth Van Duyne (Texas)
• Craig Goldman (Texas)
• Lance Gooden (Texas)
• Wesley Hunt (Texas)
• Ronny L. Jackson (Texas)
• Morgan Luttrell (Texas)
• Keith Self (Texas)
• Mike Kennedy (Utah)
• Celeste Maloy (Utah)
• Blake Moore (Utah)
• Benjamin Lee Cline (Virginia)
• H. Morgan Griffith (Virginia)
• Jennifer Kiggans (Virginia)
• John McGuire (Virginia)
• Robert J. Wittman (Virginia)
• Michael Baumgartner (Washington)
• Dan Newhouse (Washington)
• Carol Miller (West Virginia)
• Riley Moore (West Virginia)
• Derrick Van Orden (Wisconsin)
• Bryan Steil (Wisconsin)
• Tom Tiffany (Wisconsin)
• Tony Wied (Wisconsin)
• Harriet Hageman (Wyoming)

This report was generated by searching the complete DOJ Epstein file corpus (12 datasets, 218 GB). The presence of an official's name in this corpus does not imply any wrongdoing or connection to Jeffrey Epstein — the vast majority of mentions are in news articles, political coverage, and other media collected as part of the investigation. Only entries marked DIRECT indicate documented personal contact.