Bill Pascrell: “Yesterday was tax day. Today is tax day. I call upon House Republicans to allow review of the President's tax returns.…”

“Yesterday was tax day. Today is tax day. I call upon House Republicans to allow review of the President's tax returns. Now it is tax day again, so I want to reiterate and give my colleagues a vote for transparency. It was reported yesterday that the President filed for an extension on his returns, but while every President going back to Richard Nixon released his tax returns to the American people in the name of transparency and accountability, this President continues to keep his own finances shrouded in secrecy. He was told to disinvest at the very beginning of his administration by the Office of Government Ethics, Mr. Shaub. The President has not. {time} 1245 Since February of 2017, I have been calling on the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, of which I am a member, to request the President's tax returns, which they have the power to do under section 6103 of the Tax Code. I called up resolutions, but 18 times the committee and the House have voted against seeing the President's tax returns--just seeing them. Today, I renew my call for this Congress to act to review the President's tax returns and out his conflicts and self-enrichment while in office. Why did President Trump support giving the wealthy and big corporations a giant tax cut in the tax scam just passed in the Congress in December? Why is he letting lobbyists for Wall Street and Big Oil write their own rules?…”