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Chris Stein

House oversight chair says panel will move to hold Hillary Clinton in contempt

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Hillary Clinton speaks during the first day of Democratic national convention on 19 August 2024 in Chicago. Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The House oversight committee will move to hold Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress, its Republican chair James Comer said on Wednesday, after the former first lady joined her husband Bill Clinton in refusing to comply with a subpoena for testimony regarding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The announcement came a day after the Clintons said they would not honor subpoenas from the investigative panel to discuss Epstein, a former friend of the ex-president, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.

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