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House Oversight Committee will consider whether to hold House-wide votes on former president’s detention bill clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for contempt of Congress Wednesday morning for failing to attend her scheduled depositions in the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
If approved by the committee, the resolutions would submit consideration of the contempt findings to the entire House of Representatives.
“President Clinton has refused to appear for his deposition scheduled for January 13, 2026. President Clinton’s unwillingness to comply with the subpoena, even after the Oversight Committee agreed to postpone his deposition date, at his request, for nearly a month, has substantially interfered with the Oversight Committee’s investigation,” the committee wrote in its findings.
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks on stage during the New York Times Dealbook 2024 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 4, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for The New York Times)
The committee had originally asked Bill and Hillary Clinton to appear before parliamentarians on October 14 and 9, 2025, respectively.
Epstein He committed suicide while incarcerated on charges of sex trafficking of minors in 2019, interrupting the prosecution of his crimes.
Epstein was known to have rubbed shoulders with some of the most powerful and richest figures in the world, including Prince Andrew of the British royal family, the now president donald trump Bill Gates and the Clintons.
In recent disclosures by the Department of Justice (DOJ) pursuant to the Epstein Files Transparency Act, several previously undisclosed images have emerged, revealing new details of Clinton’s relationship with Epstein.
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Former President Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein in photographs found in the recently released Epstein files. (Department of Justice)
While none of them, alone, present any evidence of wrongdoing, they have raised new questions among Republicans about what the former president may have known about Epstein’s crimes.
“In particular, President Clinton possesses firsthand information about the activities of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell and their efforts to establish relationships and curry favor with influential people while operating a sex trafficking ring,” the committee wrote in its findings.
“Their testimony can inform the Oversight Committee’s consideration of legislative reforms designed to combat the operation of sex trafficking rings, efforts to protect them from scrutiny, and ethics reforms for current and former elected officials.”
The Clintons were two of 10 people subpoenaed by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., as part of the panel’s investigation, but they are the only two so far facing threats of contempt for failing to appear.
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A Capitol Police officer stands between House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and reporters after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to appear for a closed-door deposition in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The subpoenas were issued following a bipartisan vote during an unrelated committee hearing over the summer.
The investigation has since fallen victim to partisan infighting, with both sides accusing each other of politicians singing the investigation at the expense of Epstein’s victims.
Republicans are expected to push contempt resolutions out of committee largely along partisan lines.
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Comer told Fox News Digital last week that the House would likely vote on both resolutions within three legislative days. That would put the vote in February, given the House’s planned recess next week.
