Oversight Resolution Recommends Holding Hunter Biden in Contempt

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer, R-Ky., on Monday released a resolution recommending Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress.

The Oversight panel’s resolution and accompanying report recommends the full House find Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with a subpoena to appear for deposition.

The committee will consider the resolution and report at a markup on Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET.

Comer on Friday announced that his panel and the Judiciary Committee will hold public markups on a resolution to hold President Joe Biden’s son in contempt of Congress as the GOP moves into the final stages of its monthslong impeachment inquiry.

If the charges pass the committees, they would then go to the House floor for a final vote.

The president’s son last month refused to sit for a closed-door meeting with the panels after being issued a subpoena. Instead, he held a press conference on the Capitol grounds where he made a statement but did not take questions from the media.

“Our investigation has produced significant evidence suggesting President Biden knew of, participated in, and benefitted from his family cashing in on the Biden name,” Comer said Friday in a statement along with Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, whose committee also will hold a markup.

“We planned to question Hunter Biden about this record of evidence, but he blatantly defied two lawful subpoenas, choosing to read a prepared statement outside of the Capitol instead of appearing for testimony as required,” the statement continues.

“Hunter Biden’s willful refusal to comply with our subpoenas constitutes contempt of Congress and warrants referral to the appropriate United States Attorney’s Office for prosecution. We will not provide him with special treatment because of his last name.”

Hunter Biden and his lawyers repeatedly have blasted the GOP-issued subpoena for the closed-door testimony, arguing that information from those interviews can be selectively leaked and manipulated. The younger Biden has insisted that he only would testify in public.

“Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics, expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say,” Hunter Biden said outside the Capitol in a rare public statement last month. “What are they afraid of? I am here.”

The Associated Press contributed to this story.