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The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on whether to refer former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal charges.
The House Rules Committee, the final gatekeeper before most bills get a vote of the entire chamber, is scheduled to consider a pair of contempt of Congress resolutions aimed at the Clintons at 4 p.m. ET on Monday.
Those resolutions are expected to move through the committee along party lines, preparing them for final approval on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Both Clintons were subpoenaed to appear before the House Oversight Committee to testify in the congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Despite months of back-and-forth between the former first couple’s attorneys and Oversight staff, they never appeared under the terms dictated by Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., pushing him to initiate contempt proceedings.
“This shows that no one is above the law,” Comer told reporters after his panel advanced the resolutions last month. “I’m very proud of the committee and I look forward to receiving the Epstein documents very quickly and trying to get answers for the American people.”
The committee voted along bipartisan lines to move forward with contempt resolutions against the Clintons. Nine Democrats joined Republicans to push the resolution against Bill Clinton, while three voted in favor of Hillary Clinton’s resolution.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., speaks at a press conference at the US Capitol on October 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Most Democrats, however, have accused Comer of having partisan motivations behind his efforts to disparage Clinton.
The Clintons were two of 10 people subpoenaed by Comer as part of the panel’s investigation into Epstein. The subpoenas were issued after a bipartisan vote by an Oversight subcommittee panel during an unrelated hearing on illegal immigration.
Democrats on the committee have noted that Comer has not pushed to arrest others who were not found in contempt, nor has he made any threats against the Department of Justice for failing to produce all of his documents on Epstein by the deadline agreed upon by Congress late last year. The department has produced a fraction of the documents expected so far.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer speaks with a heckler while speaking to reporters after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to appear for a closed-door deposition at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Comer has said he is in contact with the Justice Department about producing documents.
If this week’s vote is successful, the House will have recommended that both Clintons be prosecuted by the Justice Department.
A charge of contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum fine of $100,000 and up to one year in jail.
