{"id":2141183,"date":"2024-01-05T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T15:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-hearing-scheduled-for-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2024-01-05T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T15:29:01","slug":"hunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-hearing-scheduled-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-hearing-scheduled-for-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden&#8217;s Congress hearing for contempt set on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-contempt-of-congress-hearing-scheduled-for-wednesday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2141183&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>House Oversight and Judiciary Committees \u2062to Hold Contempt Hearing \u2062for \u200dHunter Biden<\/h2>\n<p>The House Oversight and Judiciary committees have announced an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-watchdog-demands-jordan-disinvite-rfk-jr-from-testifying-before-weaponization-committee\/\" title=\"Watchdog group urges Jordan to rescind RFK Jr's invitation to testify before weaponization committee.\">upcoming \u2064hearing<\/a> to address the issue of holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-joe-bidens-possible-diplomatic-non-boycott-of-olympics-no-big-deal\/\" title=\"China: Joe Biden's Possible Diplomatic Non-Boycott of Olympics 'No Big Deal'\">highly anticipated event<\/a> is scheduled to take place on\u2064 Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The need for this hearing \u200barose after President Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter, defied \u2063a subpoena in December. Instead of complying \u200dwith the request \u2062to sit for a \u200ddeposition, he \u200dchose to make \u2064a statement to the media outside the Capitol. In his statement, he expressed his willingness \u200bto testify but only\u2063 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-that-intentional-cnns-dana-bash-grills-adam-schiff-over-avoiding-witnesses-whod-challenge-the-january-6th-narrative\/\" title=\"\u2018Is That Intentional?\u2019: CNN\u2019s Dana Bash Grills Adam Schiff Over Avoiding Witnesses Who\u2019d \u2018Challenge\u2019 The January 6th Narrative\">public committee hearing<\/a>, refusing to participate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/contempt-charge-against-dan-scavino-based-on-false-claims-by-january-6-committee\/\" title=\"Contempt Charge Against Dan Scavino Based on False Claims by January 6 Committee\">closed-door deposition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hunter Biden&#8217;s deliberate refusal to comply with our subpoenas is a clear act of contempt of Congress,&#8221; \u2064stated Oversight Committee Chairman James \u200dComer (R-KY) and Judiciary Committee Chairman\u2064 Jim Jordan (R-OH) in a joint statement. They further emphasized that special treatment would not be given \u200dto him based on his last\u200d name.<\/p>\n<p>The contempt hearing is scheduled for\u2064 10 a.m. on January \u200c10th. This is an ongoing story, and updates will be provided.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How do the\u200d committee chairs emphasize that special treatment will not be given to Hunter Biden based on his last name<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The House Oversight and Judiciary \u200ccommittees \u200chave recently announced\u2062 their plans to hold a \u2064contempt hearing for Hunter Biden. \u2062This highly anticipated event is set to take place on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The need for such a hearing \u200barose after President Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter, defied a subpoena in December. Instead\u200b of complying with the request to sit for a\u2063 deposition, Hunter chose to \u2064make a statement\u200b to the media outside the\u200b Capitol. In his statement, he expressed his willingness\u2064 to testify but only\u200d in\u2063 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-senate-rejects-another-term-for-meagan-wolfe-as-state-elections-chief\/\" title=\"Meagan Wolfe denied another term as Wisconsin's State Elections Chief by Senate.\">public\u200d committee hearing<\/a>, refusing to participate in a closed-door deposition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hunter Biden&#8217;s deliberate\u200c refusal to \u200bcomply with our subpoenas is a clear act of \u2062contempt of Congress,&#8221; stated Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer\u200b (R-KY)\u200c and Judiciary \u200bCommittee\u2064 Chairman Jim Jordan\u200b (R-OH) in a joint statement.\u200d They further emphasized\u2063 that\u200c special treatment would not be given \u2062to him\u2062 based on his\u2062 last name.<\/p>\n<p>The contempt hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. on January 10th. As this \u200bis an ongoing\u200d story, updates will\u2062 be \u2062provided as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Oversight and Judiciary committees have scheduled the initial hearing to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for Wednesday. This comes after he refused to comply with a subpoena for a deposition in December, opting to deliver a statement to the press outside the Capitol, stating his intention to testify solely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2141184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}