Hillary Clinton is expected to skip the House Oversight launch on Wednesday, risking impeachment

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been subpoenaed to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, but is expected to defy the order, potentially risking criminal charges.

Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify behind closed doors at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and it appears the GOP-led committee will continue to hold interviews in some form regardless of whether she attends.

Attorneys for Hillary and Bill Clinton sent a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., earlier this week, calling their subpoenas “erroneous and legally unenforceable.”

But Comer previously threatened to begin contempt of Congress charges against both Clintons if they skip their January deposition dates, which have been postponed twice before, amid negotiations with their lawyers.

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Bill Clinton defied his own subpoena Tuesday, failing to show up for his 10 a.m. arraignment.

Comer told reporters afterward that the House Oversight Committee will meet next week to move forward with a motion to impeach the former president.

When Fox News Digital asked if the same would happen to Hillary Clinton if she failed to show up the next day, Comer said, “We’ll see. We’ll talk about it.”

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The former first couple were two of the ten people named by Comer as part of the panel’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The subpoenas were issued following a bipartisan vote by an Oversight subcommittee panel during an unrelated illegal immigration hearing.

Despite that, however, no Democrats showed up at the grill expected by Bill Clinton.

Former President Bill Clinton speaks on stage during the Clinton Global Initiative meeting at the New York Hilton Midtown on September 18, 2023, in New York City. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative)

“Not a single Democrat came out today, not a single Democrat,” Comer told reporters. “It seems they only care about pushing the Republicans. And we had Trump’s Cabinet secretary, Alex Acosta, to eat. We had Bill Barr, who was the attorney general, to eat. But for whatever reason, President Clinton didn’t show up. And the Democrats on the committee seemed to have a problem.”

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The Clintons’ attorneys criticized Comer’s leadership of the investigation in their letter, dropping the subpoenas.

“The President and Secretary Clinton have already provided the limited information they have about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to the Committee,” the lawyers said.

“Your continued insistence that the former President and Secretary of State can be compelled to appear before the Committee under these circumstances, however, brings us into a protracted and unnecessary legal dispute that interferes with the primary work of Congress on this matter, which, if done in good faith, would help ensure that the victims of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Point.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., speaks at a press conference at the US Capitol on Oct. 21, 2025, Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

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Comer said after Bill Clinton left office, “No one is accusing Bill Clinton of any wrongdoing. We just have questions. And that’s why the Democrats voted, along with the Republicans, to impeach Bill Clinton.”

The House Oversight Committee will need to advance the impeachment resolution before it can be considered by the rest of the chamber. If a majority votes to hold someone in contempt of Congress, a criminal referral is traditionally made to the Department of Justice.

Contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a maximum $100,000 fine, if convicted.