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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have blocked an attempt by Democrats to use an obscure law to obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns from the IRS.
Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee tried to frame the issue as a matter of national security. They questioned whether Trump has any investments in Russia, though they offered no proof.
The committee has legal authority to obtain confidential tax records. The committee could then vote to make them public.
Shunning decades of tradition, Trump has steadfastly refused to release them.
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday defeated an amendment by U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, that would have used a little-known authority of the committee to secure and review in closed session President Donald Trump's income tax returns.
As a candidate and now as president, Trump has broken with precedent by not releasing his tax returns.
Around the country, Republican congressmen are facing angry crowds at town hall meetings – mostly from people defending the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, all House Ways and Means Committee Democrats joined together in urging their colleagues to oppose a resolution that would repeal recently finalized Department of Treasury rules that reduce tax incentives for corporate inversions – a practice in which some corporations have renounced their American citizenship to avoid their share of American taxes.
Ordinary American taxpayers are subsidizing excessive CEO pay through a variety of channels. These five reforms could help end these perverse incentives for executive excess.
1. Close the "performance pay" loophole
Washington -- The Republican-led House voted Thursday to repeal an Obama-era regulation that required the Social Security Administration to disclose to the national gun background check system information about people with mental illness.
The regulation instituted in the final days of the Obama administration required the SSA to share information about those who are considered incapable of managing their own disability benefits due mental illness.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, spoke out on the House Floor against gun violence. He voted "no" on House Joint Resolution 40, which would overturn an existing Social Security Administration (SSA) rule that requires submission of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). House Joint Resolution 40 would weaken the firearms background check system by excluding those with the most severe and incapacitating forms of impairment.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee, introduced today the Expand American Educational Opportunity Act, which would help working families pay for college. This legislation is part of a tax package to support the middle class that also included Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal's legislation to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro's legislation to expand the Child Tax Credit.
Gov. Greg Abbott is carrying out a promise, effective immediately, to withhold state grant money administered by his office to Travis County because of a new jail policy related to immigration, his office told the American-Statesman on Wednesday.
"This morning, the governor's office is canceling all currently active Travis County criminal justice grants," Abbott spokesman John Wittman said.
So far, the state has paid only about $300,000 of $1.8 million to the county, so the loss will total about $1.5 million.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Ranking Democrat on the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Tax Policy and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court, issued the following statement in response to President Trump's Supreme Court nomination: