Treasury Congressional Communications Regarding 2017 Tax Reform (3 of 4)

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
September 5, 2018
Sara Kaiser Creighton
Elizabeth France
John E. Bies
American Oversight
1030 15th Street NW, Suite B255
Washington, DC 20005
[email protected]
Re: American Oversight v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, 17-cv-2078-RBW (D.D.C.):
Treasury September 5 Production
Counsel:
This letter describes the September 5, 2018 production from the U.S. Department of the
Treasury (Treasury) in the above-referenced Freedom of Information Act litigation. Pursuant to
the Court’s February 2, 2018 Order, Treasury has reviewed and processed 60 documents
collected in response to American Oversight’s Congressional Communications FOIA Request,
2017-08-121. Via email, Treasury is producing 20 documents totaling 34 pages, comprising the
non-exempt, responsive portions of the records within this collection. The documents are
numbered UST 000875 - 908; portions of these materials are withheld pursuant to Exemptions 5
and 6 of the FOIA. An additional 36 documents, totaling 226 pages, are being withheld in their
entirety pursuant to Exemption 5, and four documents are non-responsive and/or duplicative of
other materials within this collection and are therefore not being produced.
Treasury is continuing to review records that are potentially responsive to this request
and will respond to you again on or before October 5, 2018.
If you have any questions concerning this production or a related matter, please contact
Rebecca Kopplin, U.S. Department of Justice, at [phone].
Sincerely,
Ryan Law
Office of Privacy, Transparency, and Records
U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Staff Summar
From: "Knight, Shahira E. EOP/WHO"
To: "Brendan M. Dunn ([email protected])"
<[email protected] .gov>, "Callas, George"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Muzinich, Justin" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:43:10 -0400
Attachments: Big 4 Staff Consensus Summary - Treasury NEC Edits.docx (38.23 kB)
We took the liberty of converting the document into Word format so we could edit it. The attached reflects
comments from Treasury and NEC.
It is not as heavily edited as it appears. There is a lot of redlining because we deleted the tables, moved
one section and had some wordsmithing changes. We also have several questions as we didn't
understand the context of some of the language and numbers in here. Thanks.
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Re: Tax Education
From: mail.house.gov>
To: @treasury.gov>
Cc: "Bailey, Bradley" <[email protected]>, "Maloney, Drew"
<[email protected]>, "Kellogg, Matthew" <[email protected]>, "Specht,
Brittan" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:44:23 -0400
Super thank you!
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 19, 2017, at 6:43 PM,
Great. Please meet at Drew's Office - Main Treasury 3134 at 8AM and then can walk down to the dining
room.
From: Dunham, Will [mailto:[email protected] )
Sen 6:40 PM
To: treasu . ov>
Cc: Bailey, Bradley <[email protected] >; Maloney , Drew <[email protected] >;
Kellogg, Matthew <[email protected] >; Specht, Brittan <[email protected] >
Subject: Re: Tax Education
Thanks Casey. Brittan and I can do that. I'll send you my info directly.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 19, 2017, at 6:35 PM,'
wrote:
HiW ill,
Hope you are doing well! Any chance you can do a 8AM breakfast? We can host at Treasury, but will
need the information below asap.
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From: Bailey, Bradley
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 5:55 PM
To: Dunham, Will <Will.Dunham@mai l.house.gov>
Cc: Maloney, Drew <Drew.Malone
<Matthew. Kel [email protected]>;
Subject: Re: Tax Education
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From: Dunham, Will <[email protected] .gov>
Date: September 19, 2017 at 5:38:12 PM EDT
To: Bailey, Bradley <Bradley.Bailey@treasury .gov>
Cc: Maloney, Drew <[email protected] >, Kellogg, Matthew
<Matthew. Kellogg@treas u ry.gov>
Subject: Re: Tax Education
It'll take me half an hour at least to get there and get in the building if I leave right now - let's
do it tomorrow AM. rm flexible in the morning. Adding Brittan.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 19, 2017, at 5:28 PM, "[email protected] "
<Bradley. Bailey@treasw:y.gov> wrote:
Prob 6:30 if you want or we could do tomorrow
From: Dunham, Will <[email protected] >
Date: September 19, 2017 at 5:20:34 PM EDT
To: Bailey, Bradley <Bradley.Bailey@treasury .gov>
Cc: Maloney, Drew <[email protected] >, Kellogg, Matthew
<Matthew .Kellogg@treasury .gov>
Subject: Re: Tax Education
You're thinking meeting tonight in person? How late are you guys in?
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 19, 2017, at 5:16 PM, "[email protected] "
<[email protected] > wrote:
Will--just tried giving you a call. We can do someth ing this evening if that still
works for you. 202-615-2125
From: Dunham, Will <[email protected] >
Date: September 19, 2017 at 10:34:30 AM EDT
To: Kellogg, Matthew l<Matthew.Kellogg@treasury .gov>
Cc: Bailey, Bradley <Bradley.Bailey@treasury .gov>, Maloney, Drew
<[email protected] >
Subject: RE:T ax Education
Happy to come down at your convenience. Free noon-3 today and after 5. I'd
bring Brittan along.
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From: [email protected] [m ailto:[email protected] ]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:29 AM
To: Dunham, Will <[email protected] >
Cc: [email protected];v [email protected]
Subject: Tax Education
Will - Following up on our discussion. Any chance you'll be down this way in the
near future so we could have a quiet conversation of how to be helpful on tax
reform education efforts?
Thanks.
-Matt
Matt Kellogg
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Banking and Finance
Office of Legislative Affairs
Department of the Treasury
[email protected]
202.622.1900
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Re: Bi 6 Comms Meetin
From: "Sayegh, Tony E. EOP/WHO"
To: "Buck, Brendan" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Dorr, Kaelan K. EOP/WHO" >, "Ferrier, Antonia (McConnell)"
<[email protected] v>, c 1 1nger, m1ly"
<[email protected]> , "Lawless, Julia (Finance)"
<·u1ia lawless finance.senate.gov>, "Ditto, Jessica E. EOP/WHO"
>, "Strong, Ashlee" <[email protected]>, "Andres,
oug < oug.an res ma1. ouse.gov>, "Popp, David (McConnell)"
<[email protected]>, "Stewart, Don (McConnell)"
<don stewart mcconnell.senate.gov>, "Knight, Shahira E. EOP/WHO"
>, "Muzinich, Justin" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 05:58:44 -0400
Thanks Brendan. This is the exact right list of action items. I know it's ambitious to execute all this in 30
minutes so I would suggest we view the first 30 as Comms only discussion b(5)
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Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 19, 2017, at 5:02 PM, Buck, Brendan <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey folks, sorry for delay. I know we only have 30 minutes for the comms portion of the meeting, but
these are the things I think we need to work through for next week.
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From: "Dorr, Kaelan K. EOP/WHO" >
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 3:28 PM
To: "Ferrier, Antonia (McConnell)" <Antonia Ferrier@mcconnell .senate.gov>, Emily
Schillinger <[email protected] >, "Buck, Brendan"
<[email protected] >
Cc: "Lawless Julia Finance "< [email protected] >,Jessica Ditto
>, Ashlee Strong <[email protected] >,
"Andres, Doug" <[email protected] >, "Popp, David (McConnell)"
<David [email protected] >, "Stewart, Don (McConnell)"
<Don Stewart mcconnell.senate . ov>, "Sayegh, Tony E. EOP/WHO"
>, "Knight, Shahira E. EOP/WHO"
>, "[email protected] "
<[email protected] >
Subject: Big 6 Comms Meeting
All,
Tentative agenda for tomorrow's Communicators meeting is below. If you haven't already submitted
your vitals please let me know ASAP.
Best,
Kaelan
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RE: RELEASE: Corker Toome Statement on Tax Reform
From: "Dunn, Brendan (McConnell)" <[email protected]>
To: "Muzinich, Justin" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:09:38 -0400
You guys were a huge assist.
Brendan M. Dunn
Policy Advisor and Counsel
Office of the Senate Majority Leader
From: [email protected] [mailto:Justin. Muzinich@trea sury.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, Septembe r 20, 2017 4:52 AM
To: [email protected] ; Dunn, Brendan (McConnell)
<Bren dan_Du n n@mcco n nel I. senate .gov>
Subject: Re: RELEASE:C orker, Toomey Statement on Tax Reform
Thanks. Nice work on this.
From: Dunn, Brendan (McConnell) <Brendan [email protected] >
Date: September 19, 2017 at 8:59:28 PM EDT
To: Kowalski, Daniel <[email protected] >, Muzinich , Justin
<Justin.Muzinich@treasury .gov>
Subject: FW: RELEASEC: orker, Toomey Statement on Tax Reform
From: Johnson, Micah (Corker)
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 7:34 PM
To: Johnson, Micah (Corker) <Micah [email protected] >
Subject: RELEASE:C orker, Toomey Statement on Tax Reform
UNITED STATES SENATE
For immediate release: September 19, 2017
Contacts:
Micah Johnson (Corker), 202-228-6523
Kasia Mulligan( Toomey), 202-224-8609
Corker, Toomey Statement on Tax Reform
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.),
members of the Senate Budget Committee, today announced a path forward on tax
reform. The budget resolutionw ould allow for a tax reduction,a s scored on a static basis,
over a 10-year period.
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"I am strongly committed to pro-growth tax reform that will lead to more jobs and higher
wages and was glad to work with Chairman Enzi and Senator Toomey at the request of
Senate leadership to reach an agreement that will allow the committees of jurisdiction to
begin their work to craft this important legislation," said Corker. "While each member of
the caucus will have to make their own decision , I believe our agreement gives the tax
writing committees enough headroom to achieve real tax reform that eliminates loopholes
and lowers tax rates for hardworking Americans. I will be watching closely as the tax
reform legislation is drafted, and ultimately, my support will be contingent on a final
package that generates significant economic growth and does not worsen but hopefully
improves our fiscal situation."
"I am confident the budget agreement I have reached with Chairman Enzi and Senator
Corker will give the Finance Committee the headroom needed to write a pro-growth tax
plan that reforms the code, causes the economy to surge, and ultimately results in
reduced federal budget deficits," said Toomey.
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Possible Bi 6 Document - DRAFT
From: "Knight, Shahira E. EOP/WHO"
To: "Muzinich, Justin" <[email protected]>, "(RYAN) Callas, George"
<george.callas@mail. house .gov>, "Brendan M. Dunn
(Brendan_Dunn@mcconnell .senate.gov)" <brendan_dunn@mcconnell .senate.gov>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:59:25 -0400
Attachments: Big 6 Framework Decision ltems.docx (17.6 kB)
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