senate finance committee. why is that? the whistle-blower made this decision, quote, after an official informed the whistle-blower that it could be considered a violation of law, a violation of the irs code, to provide the committee with any information related to an individual taxpayer. somebody told the whistle-blower, hey, you know, what you're planning on telling the committee is something about one taxpayer's tax return, that's illegal. you could go to jail. somebody may have advised the whistle-blower of that, but that's not exactly true. it's not supposed to be true. there are special protections for whistle-blowers under the irs code. whistle-blowers are allowed to come forward to the committees and give information to these committees under the cloak of whistle-blower protections. now, i mean, one remedy here would be to have the head of the finance committee in the senate, republican senator chuck grassley issue a subpoena rather than just telling the whistle-blower it's a voluntary interview or nothing, don't hold your breath on that one, but what about chairman richie neal of the house ways and means