The House Oversight Committee isn't playing around when it comes to the question of holding former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress for failing to show up to be questioned in the Jeffrey Epstein matter.
They didn't show up for their depositions and released a letter that was pretty hilarious, acting like they were fighting the evil Trump administration by doing so, as opposed to refusing to sit down and be grilled about what they know.
Their attorneys said they would try to fight the subpoenas.
Then came the word from the House Oversight Chair James Comer that Bill Clinton was trying to strike a bargain
Comer said in a statement that the Clintons’ attorneys made an offer to have former President Clinton testify before only Comer and ranking member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) in New York — with just two staff members each, no other committee members, and no official transcript.
Comer rejected that deal.
If they know nothing, why not come before the Committee and say that? Why would they not want the full Committee, and why would they not want a transcript? Are there questions they don't want to answer, and do they not want their answers recorded for posterity so they can't be nailed on them?
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But now the House is one step further along to holding them in contempt.
A House committee voted on a bipartisan basis Wednesday to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress.
The House Oversight Committee voted for the former president to face a potential criminal misdemeanor for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify about his relationship with deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was 34-8.
Another vote for his wife, the former first lady and secretary of state, failing to testify was 28-15.
The vote to issue the subpoenas to begin with had also been bipartisan. Neither of them showed up for their last scheduled depositions in January, after months of back-and-forth delay.
That's a big thing that Democrats went along with the Committee vote. You even had the ranking member, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (CA-42), agree that the subpoenas were lawful.
🚨 WOW! Rep. James Comer just got Democrats to ADMIT the subpoena to Bill and Hillary Clinton is 100% lawful
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 21, 2026
GARCIA: "They were lawful, sir..."
They must now be held in CONTEMPT for refusing the subpoena. NOBODY is above the law.pic.twitter.com/3lYRjo706S
House Oversight Committee moves to hold the Clintons in contempt of Congress for failure to comply with subpoenas. pic.twitter.com/BEgpGf9Zyg
— Constitution Covenant (@Concov1776) January 21, 2026
Nine Democrats voted in favor of the Bill Clinton resolution: Reps. Maxwell Frost (Fla.), Raja Krishnamoorthi (Ill.), Summer Lee (Pa.), Stephen Lynch (Mass.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Emily Randall (Wash.), Lateefah Simon (Calif.), Melanie Stansbury (N.M.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.).
Three voted in favor of the Hillary Clinton measure: Lee, Stansbury and Tlaib.
Some of those votes do surprise me.
Now it will go to the full House. Comer is predicting it will pass.
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