New Jersey congressman invokes 1924 tax law giving Congress power to examine Trump's tax returns

[kpete]

Pascrell: Rarely used law could make Trump tax returns public

Congress should use a rarely invoked 1924 law to examine President Donald Trump's tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and Constitutional violations, and maybe make them public, Rep. Bill Pascrell said Friday.

Pascrell, a Democrat from Paterson who serves on the Ways and Means Committee, has asked the committee’s chairman, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, to order the Treasury Department to provide tax returns to the committee. Brady's office did not respond to a request for comment Friday.

After privately examining returns -- Pascrell is seeking 10 years' worth -- the committee could decide to share them with the full House, which would in effect make them public. The 1924 law gives congressional committees that set tax policy the power to examine tax returns. It was used in 1974 when Congress looked at President Richard Nixon's returns, and in 2014 when the Ways and Means Committee released confidential tax information as part of its investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for nonprofit status

http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2017/02/10/pascrell-rarely-used-law-could-make-trump-tax-returns-public/97755792/
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/11/1632589/-New-Jersey-congressman-invokes-1924-tax-law-giving-Congress-power-to-examine-Trump-s-tax-returns

[pangaia]

1. How did Pascrell get to see Fuckwad's tax returns? Did I miss something?

[Progressive dog]

3. hypothetical

He hasn't seen them.

[pangaia]

4. Eh, I see where I misread part of it.. Thanks...

[Kaotic]

2. The chairman Kevin Brady is republican...

How will this happen?

[cilla4progress]

5. I called Brady's office yesterday to push for this

I am not a constituent per se other than being an American citizen subject to house leadership.

His staff roundly dissed and lectured me on this...and hung up on me when I asked for my comment to be passed to the congressman!

[TrekLuver]

7. OH really they did did they. I am going to call too and I'll make sure I'm a constituent.

[vlyons]

8. Woo-woo!

The hue and cry gets louder!

[Lucinda]

9. KNR

[gopiscrap]

10. We need to keep jup the pressure this to happen

[world wide wally]

11. But nobody wants to see them.

Right, Honest Don?