Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself 20 seconds to note that every year of President Trump's tax returns are under audit. Madam Speaker, I include in the Record an article explaining the purpose of the taxpayer privacy law the Democrats have dismantled this week, exposing all Americans to political attack via tax information. [From the Lawfare, Dec. 2, 2022] House Democrats Can Release Trump's Tax Returns. But Should They? (By Daniel J. Hemel) Now that a House committee has obtained access to six years of former President Trump's tax returns, congressional Democrats face an easy question and a harder one. The easy question is whether, as a matter of law, the House Ways and Means Committee--which gained access to the former president's tax filings after the Supreme Court dismissed Trump's last-ditch bid to block the Internal Revenue Service from handing over the documents--can make Trump's returns public before Republicans take control of the chamber on Jan. 3. The answer to that question is straightforwardly yes. The harder question is whether, as a normative matter, the committee ought to make Trump's returns public in the waning weeks of the Democratic majority. On the one hand, Trump's tax filings should have seen the light of day long ago. Trump should have released his returns voluntarily--as every elected president since Richard Nixon has.…”