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TexasTowelie

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Wed Feb 15, 2017, 05:41 AM Feb 2017

Rep. Doggett introduces amendment in House Ways & Means Cmte. for Trump's tax returns

Just when you thought there was nothing anyone could give the U.S. to cheer her up, Austin’s own (and only) Democratic Congressman Rep. Lloyd Doggett came up with the perfect gift! Tax returns!

Today, in honor of Valentine’s Day, Rep. Doggett introduced an amendment in the House Ways and Means Committee that would require Donald Trump to release his tax returns.

His reason for introducing the amendment today? Rep. Doggett believes, given the latest news of now-former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s “entanglement” with Russia prior to Trump’s inauguration, the U.S. Congress must see the returns to determine what, if any, foreign entanglements Trump may be hiding.

Who needs champagne and chocolate when you could have page after page of steamy real estate transactions and a completely empty schedule of charitable donations?

Read more: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/32524/rep-doggetts

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Rep. Doggett introduces amendment in House Ways & Means Cmte. for Trump's tax returns (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
Good publicity. riversedge Feb 2017 #1
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