(CNN) 鈥� Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are decrying what they say is a lack of new records in the Jeffrey Epstein files that the Justice Department Friday.
鈥淥nly 3% of the documents given to the Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling,鈥� Rep. Ro Khanna of California said in a statement Saturday as he called for the full release of the files.
Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania in a also claimed that the DOJ鈥檚 files are 鈥渓argely thousands of pages of recycled content already made available to the public.鈥�
The oversight committee earlier this month the Justice Department for any Epstein-related files, along with communications between former Biden administration officials and the DOJ related to Epstein, as many of President Donald Trump鈥檚 supporters seek more information and transparency about the case. The committee has also high-profile witnesses to testify, including the Clintons.
According to Lee, the 鈥渙nly new disclosure鈥� is fewer than 1,000 pages from Customs and Border Protection鈥檚 鈥渓og of flight locations of the Epstein plane鈥� dating from 2000 to 2014 and 鈥渇orms consistent with reentry back鈥� to the United States.
Lee said the other records DOJ handed over that were already released include: video from the correctional center the night of Epstein鈥檚 death, a DOJ inspector general report on Epstein鈥檚 death, communications between the Bureau of Prisons and DOJ about Epstein鈥檚 death, Attorney General Pam Bondi鈥檚 memo on releasing the Epstein files, and court documents from Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell鈥檚 trial and Epstein鈥檚 criminal case in Florida.
Asked to respond to the claims from Khanna and Lee, a House oversight spokesperson told CNN that the committee 鈥渃ontinues to review the 34,000 pages of documents and has no further update at this time.鈥�
鈥淚t鈥檚 important to note that this is the first batch of documents from the DOJ, with more to come,鈥� the spokesperson said in a statement.
The committee had it plans to make the Epstein files public after a 鈥渢horough review鈥� to ensure victims鈥� identities and other sensitive matters are redacted.
It鈥檚 unclear how soon the records will be publicly released.
The DOJ turned over the records to the committee the same day it released a that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Maxwell.
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the oversight panel, in a statement accused the DOJ of releasing the Maxwell transcript 鈥渢o distract from their continued White House cover-up.鈥�
CNN has reached out to the Department of Justice for comment.
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