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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Jersey congressman invokes 1924 tax law giving Congress power to examine Trump's tax returns
Pascrell: Rarely used law could make Trump tax returns publicCongress should use a rarely invoked 1924 law to examine President Donald Trump's tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and Constitutional violations, and maybe make them public, Rep. Bill Pascrell said Friday.
Pascrell, a Democrat from Paterson who serves on the Ways and Means Committee, has asked the committees chairman, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, to order the Treasury Department to provide tax returns to the committee. Brady's office did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
After privately examining returns -- Pascrell is seeking 10 years' worth -- the committee could decide to share them with the full House, which would in effect make them public. The 1924 law gives congressional committees that set tax policy the power to examine tax returns. It was used in 1974 when Congress looked at President Richard Nixon's returns, and in 2014 when the Ways and Means Committee released confidential tax information as part of its investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for nonprofit status
http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2017/02/10/pascrell-rarely-used-law-could-make-trump-tax-returns-public/97755792/
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/11/1632589/-New-Jersey-congressman-invokes-1924-tax-law-giving-Congress-power-to-examine-Trump-s-tax-returns
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New Jersey congressman invokes 1924 tax law giving Congress power to examine Trump's tax returns (Original Post)
kpete
Feb 2017
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)1. How did Pascrell get to see Fuckwad's tax returns? Did I miss something?
Progressive dog
(6,918 posts)3. hypothetical
He hasn't seen them.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)4. Eh, I see where I misread part of it.. Thanks...
Response to pangaia (Reply #4)
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Kaotic
(83 posts)2. The chairman Kevin Brady is republican...
How will this happen?
cilla4progress
(24,763 posts)5. I called Brady's office yesterday to push for this
I am not a constituent per se other than being an American citizen subject to house leadership.
His staff roundly dissed and lectured me on this...and hung up on me when I asked for my comment to be passed to the congressman!
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)7. OH really they did did they. I am going to call too and I'll make sure I'm a constituent.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)8. Woo-woo!
The hue and cry gets louder!
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)10. We need to keep jup the pressure this to happen
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)11. But nobody wants to see them.
Right, Honest Don?