Any legislation yet to close the loopholes TFG tried to exploit?

[usajumpedtheshark]

I'd also like to see a requirement that presidential canidates must release tax returns.

[Ocelot II]

1. The requirements for the presidency are in the Constitution,

and they are minimal, so I doubt that requiring the release of tax returns would pass constitutional muster. However, I think there is discussion of enacting statutes clarifying the process for certifying elections.

[usajumpedtheshark]

4. Are members of Congress required to release tax returns?

[Ocelot II]

5. They are all required to file financial statements.

Members of Congress, candidates for federal office, senior congressional staff, nominees for executive branch positions, Cabinet members, the president and vice president and Supreme Court justices are required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to file annual reports disclosing their personal finances.

But this doesn't require the disclosure of the tax returns themselves, and you can be sure TFG lied through his teeth when he filed his reports. The law doesn't really have any teeth.

[usajumpedtheshark]

8. Thank you for providing this information.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Somebody on the committee please go off script

Somebody on the committee please go off script and raise your voice and show your rage and fear about the future.

Either we get the attention of those 100 million or more people who see no reason to vote or we are in trouble.

[bottrott]

3. That's the entire mission of the J6 Committee...

and they have not yet completed their investigation. Until they issue their report it will be deemed premature so we all wait. Even if they were to propose legislation, there's likely no path through the Senate prior to the mid-terms due to the ever changing "McConnell" rule(s).

[Retrograde]

7. And while they're at it

make federal justices and nominees release their tax returns. Members of Congress, too, just to be fair.

[Lars39]

9. iirc, the Committee was going to review

the Electoral Compact. I understood that they were looking to close loopholes, etc.