{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://schneider.house.gov/media/press-releases/schneider-statement-vote-release-report-irss-review-mandatory-audit-policy", "Schneider Statement on Vote to Release Report on IRS\u2019s Review of the Mandatory Audit Policy for Presidents\u2019 Tax Returns During the Previous Administration", "2022-12-20", "2022", "2022-12", "Democrat", "House", "IL", "Bradley Scott Schneider", "S001190", "schneider.house.gov", "schneider", "https://schneider.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) \u2013 Member of the Ways and Means Committee \u2013 released the following statement:\n\n\u201cTonight I voted to send to the full House the Ways and Means report, including supporting documentation, demonstrating that the IRS policy of examining Presidents\u2019 tax returns is woefully insufficient and requires a legislative fix.\n\n\u201cI did not make this decision lightly. From our founding, the United States was established to be a nation ruled by laws, not kings. No one is above the law, including and especially the President. Americans need to be able to trust that the President pays taxes like anyone else. That is why in 1977 the IRS implemented a policy of mandatory examination (audit) of Presidential tax returns.\n\n\u201cThis Congress, the Ways and Means Committee conducted an investigation of the 1977 Mandatory Audit Policy and discovered that the policy was not well defined and poorly executed, to the point of being dormant. Today, the Committee deliberated on the report of the investigation in an hours long, closed door session. The Committee ultimately voted to release the report with supporting documentation\u2014including several years of President\u2019s Trumps returns\u2014 to the full House. I voted in favor in order to properly inform consideration of legislation to require the IRS to audit future President\u2019s tax returns in a timely and comprehensive manner.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://schneider.house.gov/media/press-releases/schneider-statement-vote-release-report-irss-review-mandatory-audit-policy"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5964449848979712, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}