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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse panel set to kick off debate on presidential tax returns
This will be fun. I doubt that the senate will pass this law and think that we need to rely on state level ballot access laws https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/31/house-panel-set-to-kick-off-debate-on-presidential-tax-returns-1140794
A House panel next week will be the first to wade into Democrats' efforts to ensure that President Donald Trump and his successors release their tax returns, setting the stage for possible political and legal battles to come.
The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee specifically called next Thursdays hearing to discuss a legislative proposal that would require presidents, vice presidents and major party nominees for those offices to release a decades worth of tax returns.
But the hearing is likely to also touch on the Ways and Means Committees efforts to acquire and release Trumps returns through current legal channels. Trump broke with four decades of precedent in 2016 when he refused to divulge his tax returns, citing ongoing audits, after at first saying he would disclose them.
Democrats vowed to seek Trumps returns if they took over the House, and some progressives have been pressing Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) to be more aggressive in his efforts.
The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee specifically called next Thursdays hearing to discuss a legislative proposal that would require presidents, vice presidents and major party nominees for those offices to release a decades worth of tax returns.
But the hearing is likely to also touch on the Ways and Means Committees efforts to acquire and release Trumps returns through current legal channels. Trump broke with four decades of precedent in 2016 when he refused to divulge his tax returns, citing ongoing audits, after at first saying he would disclose them.
Democrats vowed to seek Trumps returns if they took over the House, and some progressives have been pressing Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) to be more aggressive in his efforts.
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House panel set to kick off debate on presidential tax returns (Original Post)
Gothmog
Jan 2019
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world wide wally
(21,742 posts)2. Hell yes, we want to see them!
Gothmog
(145,176 posts)3. The House is also checking on trump's lie about being under audit