bill co-sponsored by 100% of the house democrats to call for a nonpartisan outside, independent commission to investigate the russian connection. in that regard, i m very pleased to yield to the distinguished vice chair of the house democratic caucus and command her and the work of other democrats on the committee yesterday to try to get the chairman to ask the secretary of the treasury for the tax returns of donald trump. perhaps seeing some evidence, some truth will shed some light on the challenge that we face as we go forward. with that, i m pleased to yield to the distinguished vice chair, congresswoman sanchez. thank you. we are all here today because we have to speak up and speak out against the so that s pelosi echoing what we ve heard from a number of democrats, including senator amy klobuchar. the trump white house has a lot to answer for. so the democrats clearly in the