{"id":2143184,"date":"2024-01-08T09:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-release-hunter-biden-contempt-legislation-ahead-of-hearing\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:52:34","slug":"republicans-release-hunter-biden-contempt-legislation-ahead-of-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-release-hunter-biden-contempt-legislation-ahead-of-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP unveils Hunter Biden contempt bill prior to hearing"},"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%2Frepublicans-release-hunter-biden-contempt-legislation-ahead-of-hearing%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=2143184&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 Republicans Seek Contempt\u200c of Congress for Hunter Biden<\/h2>\n<p>House Republicans have taken a bold step in their pursuit of holding Hunter Biden accountable.\u200c After\u2062 the president&#8217;s son \u200crefused to comply with their subpoenas and skipped 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>, the House Oversight and Judiciary \u200ccommittees have unveiled proposals to\u2062 hold him\u200c in contempt\u200d of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The committees \u200bhave released \u2062nearly identical resolutions and accompanying \u2063reports, outlining the events\u200b that led\u2062 to this decision. Contempt of Congress is a rare proceeding, occurring less\u2064 than a dozen times\u200d in the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Hearings\u2064 to\u2062 consider the \u2063resolutions\u200c will take place on Wednesday morning,\u2062 and\u200d it is expected that they will pass. The full House will then vote on a \u200dfinal resolution. If approved, the House\u200b will refer the\u2063 contempt case to the\u2064 Department of Justice, which will decide whether to prosecute Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The committees had initially subpoenaed\u200b Hunter Biden to\u200d appear for a deposition on\u200b December 13th. \u200dHowever, Biden chose \u200cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-inflation-metric-likely-heading-even-higher\/\" title=\"Another Inflation Metric Likely Heading Even Higher\">make public remarks<\/a> outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., stating that he would only testify at \u200ba public \u2062hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The reports\u200c state, &#8220;Mr. Biden&#8217;s \u2064flagrant\u200d defiance of the Committees&#8217; deposition \u200dsubpoenas -\u2062 while choosing to appear nearby on the Capitol grounds to read a prepared statement on the \u2064same matters -\u200c is contemptuous, and he must\u2064 be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fire-fauci-new-study-finds-closing-schools-in-response-to-covid-19-delayed-herd-immunity-and-will-increase-overall-deaths\/\" title=\"FIRE FAUCI: New Study Finds Closing Schools In Response to COVID-19 Delayed Herd Immunity and Will Increase Overall Deaths\">held accountable<\/a>\u200c for his unlawful actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For \u200cmore information, you can read a copy of \u2063Oversight&#8217;s resolution and report \u2064 <a href=\"link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story\u2062 is developing.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What will happen if the House votes to approve the contempt \u2063case against\u2062 Hunter Biden and refers it to the Department of Justice<\/h2>\n<p><span>  House Republicans are taking a bold step in their pursuit of holding Hunter Biden accountable, \u2062as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-agrees-former-los-angeles-county-sheriff-wont-face-contempt-hearing\/\" title=\"Judge agrees ex-LA County Sheriff won't face contempt hearing.\">seek contempt<\/a> of Congress for his refusal to comply with their subpoenas and his decision to skip a closed-door deposition. The House Oversight and Judiciary committees have unveiled proposals to\u200b hold Biden in contempt.<\/p>\n<p>The committees have released nearly identical resolutions and accompanying reports that outline the events leading to this decision. Contempt of\u200b Congress is \u2063a rare proceeding, occurring less\u2062 than a dozen\u2062 times\u200b in the past\u200d decade.<\/p>\n<p>Hearings to consider the resolutions will take place on Wednesday morning, and it is expected that \u2063they will\u2062 pass. The\u2064 full House will then vote \u200con a final resolution. If approved, \u2063the House will refer the contempt case to the Department of Justice, which\u200b will decide whether to prosecute Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the committees had\u2063 subpoenaed \u2063Hunter Biden to appear for a deposition on December 13th. However, Biden chose to\u200b make\u2063 public remarks outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., stating \u2064that \u200dhe would only testify at a public hearing.<\/p>\n<p>In their reports, the committees stated,\u2064 &#8220;Mr. Biden&#8217;s flagrant defiance of the Committees&#8217; deposition subpoenas &#8211; while choosing to appear nearby on the Capitol grounds to read a prepared statement\u2062 on the same matters\u2064 &#8211; \u2063is contemptuous, and he\u200c must \u2064be held accountable for his unlawful actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, readers\u2063 can access a copy of Oversight&#8217;s \u2062resolution and report here.<\/p>\n<p>This story is\u200d developing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans have introduced resolutions to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress. Last month, he refused to comply with their subpoenas and skipped a closed-door deposition. The House Oversight and Judiciary committees released similar reports outlining the sequence of events that led to this action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143184","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}