House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Kentucky, speaks as ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia, D-California, listens during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform markup meeting about finding former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in contempt of Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 21, 2026. JACQUELYN MARTIN / AP
A Republican-led US House panel voted Wednesday, January 21, to launch contempt of Congress proceedings against Bill and Hillary Clinton over their refusal to testify before its probe into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The Oversight Committee advanced resolutions accusing the Democratic ex-president and former secretary of state of unlawfully defying subpoenas to appear in person to explain their links to the disgraced financier, who died in custody in 2019.
The full House of Representatives, also majority Republican, will now decide whether to formally cite the couple for contempt and refer them to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution, at a date yet to be announced.
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