House Committee Recommends Contempt for Clintons in Epstein Probe

The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to recommend that former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton be held in contempt of Congress for failing to appear for scheduled depositions in the panel's investigation into the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The committee advanced two separate resolutions along mostly partisan lines, with a 34-8 vote on the measure targeting Bill Clinton and a 28-15 tally for the one concerning Hillary Clinton. Nine Democrats joined all 25 Republicans in supporting the contempt recommendation for Bill Clinton, including Representatives Maxwell Frost of Florida, Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, Summer Lee of Pennsylvania, Stephen Lynch and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Emily Randall of Washington, Lateefah Simon of California, Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Lee, Stansbury, and Tlaib also backed the resolution for Hillary Clinton. The bipartisan subpoenas for the Clintons were issued unanimously more than five months ago as part of the committee's probe into Epstein's activities, including his sex trafficking network.

Committee Chair James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky,...