Vermont's at-large Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter Welch Thursday wrote a letter to the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service demanding answers to a Wall Street Journal report revealing that some companies used employee pension plans to provide supplemental executive benefits.
Welch asked in his letter that Secretary of Treasury Henry Paulson and IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman respond to his questions by no later than Friday, August 22, so that he "will have the information necessary to prepare a legislative response to this issue."
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