By Moira Warburton and Katharine Jackson
December 13, 20237:55 PM EST
House impeachment inquiry vote
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted along party lines Wednesday to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Republicans
Democrats
Yea Nay
221 212
'NO EVIDENCE'
Earlier on Monday, Hunter Biden defied a committee subpoena to testify behind closed doors — saying he would testify only in public as he feared his words would otherwise be misrepresented.
"There is no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business, because it did not happen," Hunter Biden said.
Members of the committee said they would take steps to hold him in contempt of Congress, which could potentially result in prison time.
"The House has now spoken, and I think pretty loudly, pretty clearly with every single Republican voting in favor of moving into this official impeachment inquiry phase of our constitutional duty to do oversight," said Republican Representative Jim Jordan.
House Republicans from districts Biden won in 2020 said they viewed the inquiry as a fact-finding exercise.
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