Congressional committee votes to hold Clintons in contempt over Epstein subpoena

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to hold former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena in its investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Now that the Republican-led committee has approved the contempt measure, with the support of several Democrats, it will go to the full House of Representatives for a vote.

If it passes the House, then the matter will be referred to the justice department.

The committee had summoned both Clintons to testify about Epstein, with whom Bill Clinton has appeared in photographs in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Bill Clinton has never been accused of wrongdoing by survivors of Epstein's abuse, and has denied knowledge of his sex offending.

Lawyers for the Clintons had called the Oversight Committee subpoenas "unenforceable", and said they had already provided the "limited information" they had about Epstein.