Congressional Democrats introduced a bill Monday that would require the president, the vice president and their families to disclose and sell any assets that present potential financial conflicts of interest. Current conflict-of-interest laws do not cover the two most senior members of the executive branch.

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The bill — which has basically zero chance of passage in a Republican-controlled Congress — comes as President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t voluntarily released his own tax returns. It also comes at a time when the Republican-led Senate is poised to begin confirming Trump’s nominees for cabinet and executive level jobs beginning on Tuesday even though, according to the Walter Shaub, director of the Office of Government Ethics, many of them have not received the legally required ethics clearances from his office.

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NPR reported Saturday that Shaub had said in a letter to Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York: “In the past, the ethics work was fully completed prior to the announcement of nominees in the overwhelming majority of cases.” OGE is required by law to review completed ethics forms and tax returns before they are sent to Senate committees.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, several congressional committees haven’t received the required financial disclosures and conflict-of-interest documents from OGE for nominees who are already scheduled to testify, material the lawmakers say is necessary to properly scrutinize the nominees before confirmation.

The accelerated hearing schedule had put “undue pressure” on the OGE to rush through its reviews, according to Shaub’s letter. “It would, however, be cause for alarm if the Senate were to go forward with hearings on nominees whose reports OGE has not certified,” Shaub wrote in the letter.

As of Tuesday morning, five of the nominees scheduled for hearings this week have submitted their required ethics disclosures, and those reports are now posted to the OGE website. They are Elaine Chao for transportation secretary, Rex Tillerson to head the State Department, Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Michael Pompeo for CIA, and James Mattis for Defense.

See: OGE disclosure site

Ethics paperwork still pending as of Tuesday morning includes disclosures and signed statements from John Kelly for secretary of homeland security, Ben Carson for Health and Human Services, Betsy DeVos for education secretary, Andrew Puzder for the Labor Department and Wilbur Ross to lead the Commerce Department. Politico reported late Monday that the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Trump’s education secretary pick, has been delayed, to Jan. 17 at 5 p.m., instead of Wednesday, Jan. 11, as originally planned.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, dismissed the Democrats’ concerns on Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation”: “We confirmed seven Cabinet appointments the day President Obama was sworn in. We didn’t like most of them, either. But he won the election. So all of these little procedural complaints are related to [Democrats’] frustrations.”

McConnell added: “We need to sort of grow up here and get past that.”

The Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act of 2017, co-sponsored by a long list of by Democrats in the House and Senate including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, puts into law what most previous presidents before Trump have done — even though the law does not specifically required it.

The bill requires the president, vice president, their spouses, and minor or dependent children to divest all business interests that create financial conflicts of interest by placing those assets in a blind trust. The trust would be managed by a truly independent trustee who will oversee the sale of assets and place the proceeds in conflict-free holdings such as Treasury bills or index funds.

The bill also implements the Emoluments Clause which prohibits the president from accepting gifts or benefits from foreign governmental actors and Senator Ron Wyden’s Presidential Tax Transparency Act, which requires the sitting president and presidential nominees of a major political party to make their federal income tax returns for the three most recent tax years public.

The bill also makes violation of financial conflict-of-interest laws or the ethics requirements that apply to executive-branch employees a high crime or misdemeanor under the impeachment clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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Lisa Gilbert, director of the Congress Watch division at Public Citizen, issued a statement on the proposed bill, saying, “The message of this legislation is clear. Donald Trump will knowingly enter office with conflicts of interest unseen in American history, and they must be resolved.”