House Republicans on Tuesday canceled a planned vote to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, after the Clintons agreed to be deposed on camera this month and requested that they be allowed to do so at public hearings. The agreement marked a tense resolution to a bitter monthslong feud between Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee, and the Clintons, who had resisted testifying and accused the G. of targeting them as part of a political vendetta. “Once it became clear that the House of Representatives would hold them in contempt, the Clintons completely caved,” Mr. Comer said in a statement, adding that his panel looked forward to questioning them as part of the investigation into the “horrific crimes” of Mr. Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019, and his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell. But in agreeing to all of Mr. Comer’s demands, the former president and former secretary of state also made one of their own: requesting that the entire proceedings be made public

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