Rep Pascrell Slams Trump At Healthcare Hearing: Tax Returns!
Democrats in the House of Representatives may be outnumbered, but they are hardly silent. Today's House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Obamacare repeal led several Democrats to bring up Donald Trump's missing tax returns and obvious conflicts of interest.
No one had more fun doing this than Rep. Bill Pascrell, who pointed out in his remarks that he doesn't play golf and hoped that he was pronouncing "Dubai" correctly.
His more serious remarks reflected almost word-for-word a letter he sent to the committee's chairman last month. (Endnotes were entered into the record but not included on the Congressman's website.)
[LETTER]
Dear Chairman Brady:
The Founding Fathers were determined to prevent corruption among public officeholders under our Constitution. The emoluments clause prohibits federal officeholders from accepting foreign gifts or emoluments without congressional consent. Their intention was to forbid relationships that might lead to corruption. Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe and lawyer Joshua Matz have written that the meaning of “emoluments” as the framers intended included profits received in a business relationship.[1]