(CNN) Rep. Richard Neal, the top Democrat of the House Ways and Means Committee, plans to ask for President Donald Trump's tax returns if Democrats win the House in November and he becomes the committee chairman.

The scope of the request and the process for how it would happen is still very much under discussion and will be part of the ongoing talks within the wider-Democratic caucus and among Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee if the Democrats take the House.

Neal, seen more within the caucus as an institutionalist than a liberal agitator, told CNN that he would hope the President would hand his returns over voluntarily.

"I think we would all be comfortable if this was done on a voluntary basis," Neal said.

"If they would resist the overture then I think you could probably see a long and grinding court case," he added.

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