WASHINGTON ― Former President Bill Clinton and former first lady Hillary Clinton have agreed to sit for depositions with the House Oversight Committee about their relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Clintons on a bipartisan basis last summer at the same time lawmakers voted to subpoena the Justice Department for its files on Epstein. The Clintons resisted coming in for depositions, but agreed to set dates ― the 26th and 27th ― after Republicans set a noon deadline on Tuesday before the House proceeded to a vote holding the Clintons in contempt of Congress. “Once it became clear that we would hold them in contempt, the Clintons completely caved and will appear for transcribed, filmed depositions this month,” committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said Tuesday on X.Though the Clintons portrayed themselves as victims of a partisan witch hunt, both the subpoena and the contempt push had significant support from Democrats. The contempt resolutions would refer the Clintons to the Justice Department for prosecution. Defying a subpoena carries a penalty of up to a year in prison. Two former members of the first Trump administration served time for defying Democratic subpoenas during the Joe Biden administration. The subpoena sparked a lengthy back-and-forth between the committee and lawyers for the Clintons, who complained they were being treated unfairly. They offered brief sworn statements about their relationships with Epstein and agreed to sit for untranscribed interviews in New York. “Despite everything that needs to be done to help our country, you are on the cusp of bringing Congress to a halt to pursue a rarely used process literally designed to result in our imprisonment,” the Clintons wrote in a statement last month. Comer insisted the Clintons sit for normal depositions on Capitol Hill, and several Democrats agreed. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), a member of the Oversight Committee, noted Bill Clinton’s multiple trips aboard Epstein’s private plane and the many photographs of the two together. (In his sworn statement, Clinton said he accepted flights for philanthropic work because the plane could accommodate his staff and his Secret Service detail.)“With the number of flights he’s had, with a lot of the documents that have come up, he might have evidence that would be useful for the committee,” Lynch told HuffPost last month. Close