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On the recordDecember 22, 2022
This phrase keeps coming up that no person is above the law. That is true. But, also, no person is denied protection under the law. Why would we wait 4 years? Why would this come up at this time that we have to check the former President of the United States' tax returns? The answer is because we want to make them public. Why do we want to make them public? Because we need to have every single citizen understand just who this person is and what is in their tax returns with no regard to the protections that are already in place that these kinds of things don't happen, that they do not become a political weapon. Yet, now in the very last days of this session, we have decided that this is the most important thing this Congress can do. No other President has ever gone through this type of scrutiny. {time} 1000 We keep saying he is not above the law. He is not above the law. The truth of it all is, he is not protected by the law because we are going to change the law. We are going to make it a weapon that we can go after. I will just tell you this: The American people continue to lose faith, trust, and confidence in a system that cherry-picks what it decides to go after and go after in a way that is detrimental to the very form of government that we have. To be here today, talking about this, in the last hours of this session, has nothing to do with what is good for the American people. It is a political hit job.…
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Mike Kelly
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Dec 22, 2022

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