Home panel to advance DOJ referral for Invoice, Hillary Clinton over Epstein probe

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The Home of Representatives is predicted to vote this week on whether or not to refer former President Invoice Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Division of Justice (DOJ) for legal expenses.

The Home Guidelines Committee, the ultimate gatekeeper earlier than most laws will get a chamber-wide vote, is slated to think about a pair of contempt of Congress resolutions concentrating on the Clintons at 4 p.m. ET on Monday.

These resolutions are anticipated to go via the committee alongside occasion traces, teeing them up for ultimate passage as early as Tuesday or Wednesday.

Each Clintons had been subpoenaed to seem earlier than the Home Oversight Committee to testify for Congress' probe into Jeffrey Epstein.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Invoice Clinton. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs)

Regardless of months of back-and-forth between the previous first couple's legal professionals and Oversight workers, they by no means appeared on phrases dictated by Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., pushing him to initiate contempt proceedings.

"This reveals that nobody is above the regulation," Comer advised reporters after his panel superior the resolutions final month. "I am simply actual pleased with the committee and stay up for hopefully getting the Epstein paperwork in in a short time and making an attempt to get solutions for the American folks."

The committee voted alongside bipartisan traces to maneuver ahead with contempt resolutions in opposition to the Clintons. 9 Democrats joined the Republicans to advance the decision in opposition to Invoice Clinton, whereas three voted to advance Hillary Clinton's.

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Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., speaks at a press convention on the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Photographs)

Nearly all of Democrats, nevertheless, have accused Comer of partisan motivations behind his Clinton contempt efforts.

The Clintons had been two of 10 folks subpoenaed by Comer as a part of the panel's investigation into Epstein. The subpoenas had been issued following a bipartisan vote by an Oversight subcommittee panel throughout an unrelated listening to on unlawful immigration.

Democrats on the committee have identified that Comer has not pushed to carry others who didn't seem in contempt, nor has he made any threats in opposition to the DOJ for failing to supply all of its paperwork on Epstein by a deadline agreed to by Congress late final yr. The division has produced a fraction of the paperwork anticipated thus far.

Home Oversight and Authorities Reform Committee Chairman James Comer talks to an individual who was interrupting him as he spoke to reporters after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn't seem for a closed-door deposition within the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)

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Comer has mentioned he's involved with the DOJ about its doc manufacturing.

If the vote this week is profitable, the Home can have really useful each the Clintons for prosecution by the DOJ.

A contempt of Congress cost is a felony misdemeanor that carries a most fantastic of $100,000 and as much as a yr in jail.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox Information Digital main protection of the Home of Representatives. Earlier digital bylines seen at Day by day Mail and CBS Information.