After former President Bill Clinton failed to appear at a House Oversight Committee deposition on Tuesday, Chairman James Comer said he will move to penalize him for not complying with a subpoena.

The hearing focused on the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Comer, R-Ky., told reporters afterward that the committee’s markup next week would vote to hold Clinton in contempt of Congress for “not showing up for his lawful subpoena.”

Contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor offense. 

Bill Clinton’s wife and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been subpoenaed to appear before the committee on Wednesday, but has said she will not comply.

Epstein, who died in a New York correctional facility in 2019, pleaded guilty in 2008 to felony solicitation of........

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