WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, released the following statement calling for the resignation of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick after Lutnick's testimony to Congress confirming he visited Jeffrey Epstein's island (https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-files-howard-lutnick-2ead9f281ba2491e0581aced50a0533d) in 2012, despite Lutnick's previous public claims that he cut off all contact with the convicted sex trafficker in 2005:

"As more files from the Jeffrey Epstein case are released, I'm sickened by the extent of Epstein's depravity and his connections to so many powerful people....