House Republicans say they will re-subpoena Hunter Biden in coming weeks

• House Republicans said Sunday that they intend to issue new subpoenas for Hunter Biden in the coming weeks.
• The message comes in response to Biden's lawyers' offer to accept a "proper" subpoena after the president's son defied an initial congressional subpoena for a closed-door deposition in December.
• House Republicans will vote next week whether to hold Biden in contempt for his initial subpoena defiance.

House Republicans said Sunday that they intend to issue new subpoenas for President Joe Biden's son Hunter in the coming weeks after his lawyers agreed to comply with a "proper" subpoena if it was requested.

"As an accommodation to Mr. Biden and at your request, we are prepared to issue subpoenas compelling Mr. Biden's appearance at a deposition on a new date in the coming weeks," House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote in a letter to the president's son lawyer, Abbe Lowell.

The Sunday letter responds to Lowell's Friday message offering to accept a "new proper" subpoena should Comer and Jordan decide to issue one.

In their reply, Comer and Jordan said they would take Lowell up on Biden's "newfound willingness to testify."

Hunter Biden in December agreed to give public testimony but refused a congressional subpoena to testify behind closed doors, sending House Republicans into a fury. Comer and Jordan led an effort to hold Biden in contempt of Congress for defying the December subpoena, which Congress will vote on next week.

In his Friday letter, Lowell called the initial subpoenas legally invalid because they were issued before the presidential impeachment inquiry that they served was formalized, which Comer and Jordan denied on Sunday.

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