{"id":35124,"date":"2019-01-06T19:14:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35124"},"modified":"2019-01-06T19:14:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T00:14:57","slug":"speaker-pelosi-has-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35124","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Pelosi Has Jumped The Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNS News<\/a> posted an article today about a bill proposed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. In an effort to continue to harass the President, Speaker Pelosi has introduced legislation that would require all candidates for president and vice-president to release their tax returns. There would be no requirement for candidates for Congress to release their tax returns.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The provision is part of H.R. 1\u2014the \u201cFor the People Act\u201d<\/a>\u2014which Pelosi introduced Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A summary of the bill says that it includes a section titled \u201cPresidential Tax Transparency.\u201d This section, says the summary: \u201cRequires sitting presidents and vice presidents, as well as candidates for the presidency and vice presidency, to release their tax returns.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2017, when members of Congress were calling on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, Roll Call asked all 535 members of the House and Senate<\/a> to release theirs. As Roll Call reported at the time, 6 members did release their tax returns as requested by the publication. Another 6 had already released theirs elsewhere. Another 45 members, Roll Call reported, had previously and partially released their tax returns. But 473 members had not released their tax returns and did not respond to Roll Call\u2019s request<\/a> that they do so.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rep. Nancy Pelosi was one of the members, Roll Call reported, who had not released her tax returns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At an April 2017 press briefing<\/a> promoting similar legislation that would have required the president\u2014but not members of Congress\u2014to release their tax returns, Pelosi said that president\u2019s do not have a \u201cright to privacy\u201d when it comes to their tax returns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t mean to be picky here, but if Congress is willing to pass a law that states that candidates for president and vice-president have to release their tax returns, then Congress should have to release theirs.<\/p>\n

I have a feeling that for the next two years the House of Representatives is going to spend more time working on laws to make life difficult for President Trump than it is making laws that will be helpful to Americans. That is truly sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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