Hunter Biden agrees to deposition, GOP chairs say contempt resolution on track until a date is set

• An attorney for Hunter Biden said he will comply with congressional subpoenas for a deposition with Republican investigators if they issue a new one.
• Hunter Biden previously refused to comply with subpoenas for a closed-door deposition as part of a GOP impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden, offering instead to testify at a public hearing.
• The House remains on track to vote next week on Republican-led committee resolutions recommending that Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress.

An attorney for Hunter Biden told two House Republican committee chairmen Friday that he will comply with subpoenas demanding his deposition if they issue a new one — a reversal of his prior demand that such testimony be given at a public hearing.

The chairmen later said that they would work with Biden to schedule a date for a private deposition as part of an ongoing impeachment probe of his father, President Joe Biden.

But until Hunter Biden confirms that date, they will move ahead with a plan to have the full House of Representatives vote late next week on a resolution holding him in contempt of Congress for defying prior subpoenas demanding his closed-door testimony.

"We will not tolerate any additional stunts or delay from Hunter Biden," said House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in a joint statement.

"The American people will not tolerate, and the House will not provide, special treatment for the Biden family."

Hunter Biden's surprising offer to appear for a private deposition came two days after Comer and Jordan's panels passed resolutions urging the House to hold him in contempt.

Biden showed up at the Oversight Committee panel hours before the vote, silently staring down