For Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing criminal contempt of Congress charges after refusing to appear for subpoenaed depositions as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Hillary’s refusal comes just days after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, also refused to appear.
The two each face up to a year in prison and a fine of $100,000 if convicted of contempt of Congress charges, which House leaders are expected to file.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced that the committee will vote next week to hold both Clintons in contempt of Congress for defying lawfully issued subpoenas.
“We’re going to hold both Clintons in criminal contempt of Congress,” Comer told reporters Wednesday morning.
“It’s important to note that this subpoena was voted on in a bipartisan manner by this committee. This wasn’t something that I just issued as chairman of the committee. This was voted on by the entire committee in a unanimous vote of the House Oversight Committee to subpoena former President Clinton and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,” Comer said Tuesday.
The Clintons subpoenas were approved unanimously on July 23, 2025, by both Republicans and Democrats on the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee. Chairman Comer then issued the subpoenas a few weeks later.
In a four-page letter to Comer, the Clintons lawyers claimed the subpoenas are “legally invalid” and “legally unenforceable.”
“Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences,” the Clintons wrote. “For us, now is that time.”
Comer said the committee negotiated in good faith with the Clintons’ attorneys for five months, but they still refused to appear as ordered.
“We’ve communicated with President Clinton’s legal team for months now, giving them opportunity after opportunity to come in, to give us a day, and they continue to delay, delay, delay, to the point where we had no idea whether they’re going to show up,” Comer said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson had warned Monday it “would be contempt of Congress” if the Clintons did not attend this week’s depositions. Johnson has committed to bringing the contempt resolutions to a full House vote if approved by the committee.
“I do support it. I don’t know how else you would define it, but that it is contempt of Congress. I mean it’s a duly issued subpoena, and if they have nothing to hide, let’s just hear what they have to say,” Johnson said.
The committee is investigating pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, and their sex trafficking connections to the global elite.
The Justice Department released the first of the Epstein files in December, which included multiple photographs of Bill Clinton apparently taken during his international travels with Epstein and Maxwell from 2002 to 2003. The files showed Epstein visited the White House 17 times when Bill Clinton was president, and Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane around 27 times after he left the White House.
Congress has ordered the FBI to make all the Epstein files public, but the Department of Justice has repeatedly missed deadlines.
Only one percent of the Epstein files have been released to the public.