{"id":18044,"date":"2026-01-22T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-urged-opposition-to-contempt-recommendation-for-the-clintons-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:22:18","slug":"jeffries-urged-opposition-to-contempt-recommendation-for-the-clintons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jeffries-urged-opposition-to-contempt-recommendation-for-the-clintons-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries urged opposition to contempt recommendation for the Clintons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries urged opposition to a contempt recommendation for Bill and Hillary Clinton before the House Oversight panel ultimately voted to send the measures to the floor Wednesday, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss the whipping efforts. Nine Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure to hold former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress for defying a congressional subpoena over Jeffrey Epstein&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/21\/congress\/jeffries-urged-opposition-to-clintons-contempt-resolution-00740222\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries urged opposition to a contempt recommendation for Bill and Hillary Clinton before the House Oversight panel ultimately voted to send the measures to the floor Wednesday, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss the whipping efforts. Nine Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure to hold former President Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}