House Republicans to vote on resolutions to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress
House Republicans on the Judiciary and Oversight Committees will hold votes on resolutions seeking to hold Hunter Biden in contempt for defying a subpoena to appear for a closed-door transcribed interview.
House Republicans on the Judiciary and Oversight committees take votes Wednesday on resolutions seeking to hold the president’s son Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to appear for a closed-door transcribed interview.
The votes on the resolutions are part of Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. If the committees approve the resolutions, they would go to the full House for a vote. If the House votes to hold Hunter Biden in contempt, the decision on whether he should be criminally charged then falls on the Justice Department.
The committee’s chairmen, Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Monday released reports recommending Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with their subpoena requiring him to appear for closed-door testimony last month. In the reports, Comer and Jordan offered the president's son the opportunity to find a time conducive to his schedule, but he did not try to comply with their request. On the day the deposition was scheduled to take place, Hunter Biden made public remarks outside the Capitol but didn’t take questions.
Comer and Jordan called for Hunter Biden to be held accountable for his “unlawful” defiance of their subpoena.
Hunter Biden’s legal team said he would only answer questions in a public setting. His lawyers argued in letters to the committee leaders that the Republican-led committees would release out-of-context excerpts of the closed-door testimony as a way to try to smear the president.
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