Key Highlights
- Republicans on the House Oversight Committee voted to advance a pair of contempt resolutions against the Clintons on Wednesday after they did not appear for depositions as part of the committee’s Jeffrey Epstein probe earlier this month. The committee voted 34-8 to advance one contempt recommendation against Bill Clinton, with two members voting present, and another on Hillary Clinton in a 28-15 vote, with one member voting present.
- Nine Democrats voted with Republicans to advance contempt recommendations against Bill Clinton and three Democrats joined Republicans in the vote against Hillary Clinton.
- Former President Bill Clinton, left, pictured alongside his wife and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right.
- (Kenny Holston-Pool/) "The committee does not take this action lightly.
- Subpoenas are not mere suggestions," Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said of the Clintons’ no-show.
