might to speak. we will now begin the hearing. the chair is authorized to declare a recess, which will be at any time. i welcome members to the hearing . taxis and has now begun. i now tax season has now begun. i will recognize myself as opening statements throughout the pandemic returned to the revenue service. two decades through decades of the starvation of the agency, we ask the agency to encompass the possible process to process 150 tax returns. 479 million stimulus. and child tax payments. we have a responsibility. we have over 195 million people called the irs line for help during the only 20 filing season. it is more than 2019. about 82% of those calls received a signals or disconnections. taxpayers hung up out of frustration. the irs is entering the tax season with a massive backlog. millions of tax returns in correspondence related to last year s tax season. congress must resource the irs appropriately and then hold irs leadership account for making sure those r