Bill Pascrell: “Yes, sir. We started out on February 1. We have had a letter to the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. We have…”

“Yes, sir. We started out on February 1. We have had a letter to the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. We have had an amendment in the Ways and Means Committee, which is one of the three committees under 6103, paragraph F, section 1 of the Tax Code, written in 1924, that allows the Ways and Means Committee, along with the Senate Finance Committee, along with the Joint Committee on Taxation, to do its due diligence. We have had one, two, three, four, five, six, seven privileged resolutions. Mr. Capuano has offered tonight's privileged resolution. We have had a resolution, two resolutions of inquiry through the Ways and Means Committee--just having a little review here of what we have done. We have debated all of these. They must have all been in order. And we have a discharge petition right now before the Congress of the United States, and if we get to 218 in that discharge petition, we will have to take another vote. As Mr. Capuano pointed out, there are a lot of votes that we don't like to take, but these are votes that are necessary, Mr. Speaker. Already, two dozen Members of the majority party at town meetings have said, yes, the President should give the public, or at least the committees, first of all, his tax returns. We are not talking about a 1040. We are talking about thousands of pages that go into a businessperson's, who is a billion-, zillionaire, whatever the heck he is, that is what it takes. The SPEAKER pro tempore.…”