Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, initially refused to testify in the House Oversight Committee's inquiry into Epstein. The couple’s lawyers said at the time that the Clintons had already shared the “limited information” they had about Epstein and Maxwell to the committee, and the Clintons expressed their frustration with the committee for subpoenaing them, accusing the committee’s chairman, Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, of playing “partisan politics.”