; Whereas President Trump has directed the Congress to act on comprehensive reform of the Internal Revenue Code; Whereas without the President’s tax returns, the public cannot know how the full extent to which any proposed reforms will personally benefit the President; Whereas, on January 11, 2017, President Trump insisted that he has no dealings with Russia ; Whereas it has been widely reported that President Trump sought and received funding from Russian investors, especially when American banks stopped lending to him after his multiple bankruptcies; Whereas Donald Trump, Jr., who runs day-to-day business operations for his father’s companies, has stated: Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia ; Whereas, on March 20, 2017, James B. Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed the existence of a Federal investigation into multiple connections between the Trump campaign and the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin; Whereas it has been reported that President Trump has personally guaranteed over $300,000,000 in loans to German financial institution Deutsche Bank AG; Whereas the Trump Administration is now responsible for overseeing multiple investigations into the trading and lending practices of Deutsche Bank AG, and for negotiating a potentially multibillion-dollar settlement with the bank related to its trading of mortgage-backed securities; Whereas these matters represent only a few of the many instances in which President Trump has broken his promise to drain the swamp ; Whereas under the Constitution of the United States, Congress has a responsibility to conduct oversight of the executive branch; Whereas the majority of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives rejected an amendment to the committee’s oversight plan that would have tasked the committee with investigating the President’s conflicts of interest