After meeting for several hours behind closed doors, the Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines to release additional documents related to the investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes.
The panel’s 24-17 vote made public almost 700 pages of IRS documents, emails, letters and other materials turned over by two IRS employees who previously testified before the committee as witnesses, Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Agent Joseph Ziegler.
The vote came after the committee spent about two and a half hours privately debating the release of the documents because they contain taxpayer data protected under section 6103 of the tax code, which also allows the tax committees to procure documents from the IRS.
