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Neal Won’t Ask for Trump’s State Tax Returns

June 5, 2019 · 3:22 pm ET · Leave a Comment

House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) is the only Democrat allowed by a pending New York state law to ask for President Trump’s state tax returns, but so far he has said he won’t do it, Accounting Today reports.

“Neal has said he fears that getting the state returns would bolster Trump administration arguments that Congress is on a political fishing expedition — and not, as Neal has claimed, overseeing the Internal Revenue Service’s annual audits of the president.”

“Yet some of Neal’s colleagues have little interest in legal nuance and say the state tax returns are better than none at all.”

House of Representatives Richard Neal

Steyer Turns Up Heat on Powerful House Chairman

February 4, 2019 · 4:59 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Billionaire Tom Steyer, who heads a group trying to impeach President Trump, “launched a television ad buy targeting Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) in his own backyard as part of an effort to get the House Ways and Means chairman to subpoena the president’s tax returns,” Politico reports.

Steyer is trying to “pressure Neal into action, and plans to hire paid staff and launch a door-to-door canvassing effort in the congressman’s district.”

House of Representatives Richard Neal, Tom Steyer

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