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“Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng was stunned Wednesday by the speed with which the House passed a bill to force the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s files, and predicted the Senate would have a “plan to drag this out.”

However, the Senate unanimously passed the bill despite House Speaker Mike Johnson’s expectation that the upper chamber would amend it, an effort that would have seen the bill returned to the House.

Moments after celebrating the Senate as a place where “legislation and senators go to die,” Chieng seemed surprised by the bill’s quick passage.

“Wait what? Wait, wait, wait, wait, how! How the hell did it happen so fast? I thought a Senate bill had to go through amendments, committees and floor votes and Mitch McConnell bends his neck,” he joked. “And they have to add some unrelated assignments that somehow make Lindsey Graham millions of dollars. Like, how did they manage to fix all that?”

Chieng then showed a clip from MS NOW highlighting how Senate Democrats had pressured Republicans to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act by “unanimous consent,” a process in which the Senate accepts the House version of the bill as is.

“Wait, you can do that? Unanimous consent? Well, then why don’t you do that with every bill?” Chieng asked. “I mean, does it only work on bills with Epstein’s name on them? In that case, we might have to pass the Jeffrey Epstein Universal Health Care Act that features Jeffrey Epstein.”

Watch more of Chieng’s monologue from Wednesday on “The Daily Show.”

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