House Democrats remain mum on GOP-led contempt votes against Bill, Hillary Clinton

House Democrats are focused on whether they will help Republicans move forward with two impeachment resolutions against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday.

The House Oversight Committee meets at 10 a.m. to consider two reports about holding the Clintons in contempt of Congress by defying the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein subpoena. Potentially hours of debate will be followed by votes on whether those reports should be included as House votes on resolutions directing the former first couple to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for criminal prosecution.

Decisions are likely to continue, at least along party lines. But two Democrats on the committee who spoke to Fox News Digital on Tuesday were careful to avoid making concrete decisions ahead of key votes.

“For now, we should all be focused on getting the Epstein files out,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told Fox News Digital. “After the files are released, call the Clintons, and they should testify, as should anyone. But it’s too early to call people to testify when the files haven’t been released.”

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Khanna, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., led a successful effort to force a vote on authorizing the DOJ to release nearly all of its Epstein files.

The DOJ has yet to produce more than half of the documents, however, more than a month after a deadline set by Congress.

When asked specifically how he would vote on the Clintons on Wednesday, Khanna said, “I would say they need to come in after the files are released.”

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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., the first member of the committee, told Fox News Digital when asked how he would vote, “We’re going to see how they treat all the other people who didn’t fully align with the committee, because I think what they’ve started doing is making this case.”

The Clintons were two of 10 people subpoenaed to appear before the committee after the committee voted unanimously to launch an investigation.

So far, however, only one of those first 10 people — former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr — has appeared in person. Former Trump Labor Secretary Alex Azar was also deposed following a separate subpoena.

Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican from Kentucky, and Ro Khanna, Democrat from California, during a news conference on Jeffrey Epstein outside the US Capitol in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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But the Clintons are the only two Republicans who have sued for contempt, saying they have refused to cooperate with the committee in good faith in organizing their application. The Clintons’ lawyers say the subpoenas are legally invalid.

“It should be an interesting hearing, because if they’re going to disparage the Clintons, I’m curious to hear if they’re going to disparage anyone else, including Republicans in this position,” Subramanyam said.

Multiple requests for comment from the 19 remaining Democrats on the committee were not returned Tuesday.

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That includes Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the committee, did not attend any of the scheduled panel sessions with the Clintons in January.

Rep. Emily Randall, D-Wash., another member of the panel, even shut down Fox News Digital when she tried to ask for her thoughts on the impeachment attempt against Clinton. He said he had an “intense” conversation with a congressional aide.

Garcia previously accused House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., of hypocrisy for trying to hold the Clintons accountable while not pushing hard to enforce a subpoena aimed at forcing the DOJ to release all of its files on Epstein, which it has not yet done.

Rep. Robert Garcia, Democrat of California, during a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I think it’s incredibly hypocritical for James Comer to come out and try to disparage his political enemies while [Attorney General Pam Bondi] he’s actively breaking the law, and he refuses to obey,” Garcia told MS NOW last week.

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But in his opening remarks before the committee meeting, Comer is expected to argue that it would be hypocritical of Democrats not to vote to hold contempt votes in the entire House.

“We gave flexibility in planning. The response we received was not cooperation, but disdain, characterized by repeated delays, excuses, and prevention,” said Comer, according to the words obtained by Fox News Digital. “Today, the Clintons should give an account of their actions. And Democrats must support these measures, or they will be exposed as hypocrites. “

None of the Clintons have been implicated in any wrongdoing related to Epstein.