Kevin Brady: “I would note that our professional staff was ready to join in redaction; however, we were forced to prepare for this…”

“I would note that our professional staff was ready to join in redaction; however, we were forced to prepare for this floor action and offered to do that together after we were done this morning. Madam Speaker, I include in the Record a recent legal journal that notes that because Ways and Means Democrats did not pursue the Presidential audits of any of the other eight Presidents in that system, that the committee undermines their own credibility by releasing returns outside the context of a comprehensive review, an honest review of the Presidential audit program. [From Chicago-Kent Law Review, April 1999] I.R.C. 6103: Let's Get to the Source of the Problem (By Mark Berggren) INTRODUCTION Each year, millions of taxpayers in the United States voluntarily disclose the most intimate details of their private lives to the Internal Revenue Service (``IRS''). A government official can glean, among other things, a taxpayer's name, social security number, marital status, income, and religious and political affiliations from a tax return's attachments and completed schedules. Despite the plethora of private information supplied to the IRS, prior to the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1976, Internal Revenue Code (``I.R.C.'') Sec.…”