brookings institution scholars examine the administration s achievements and challenges. this runs 90 minutes. good morning, everyone. welcome to this web mar on joe biden s first 100 days. let me start by saying that the one and only reason that we mark the 100 days of a presidency is because of franklin roosevelt, president roosevelt. there s no statutory or constitutional significance. franklin roosevelt s 100 days is without equal in the 20th century. 1943 was the death of the great depression. inaugural address is responsible for the phrase we have nothing to fear but fear itself and less than two weeks after that, he gave the first of many fireside chats, explaining in simple terms what was happening and how he would fix it. roosevelt s mastery of rhetoric and new medium of radio were not what made him remembered for his first 100 days but bold legislation, legislative and regulatory, that set the bar high. he declared a bank holiday, which stopped the disastrous ru
a vote has just gone off in the senate chamber. i was one of the first to vote. and so i m here now. so i can go through some of the rudimentaries of the hearing and welcome our witnesses barry johnson, the acting chief of research and analytics at the internal revenue service. douglas o donnell. jay russell george, the treasury inspector general for tax administration. nina olson, the executive director of the center for taxpayer rights. and charles o. rossotti, former commissioner of internal revenue service, currently a senior adviser at the carlisle group. i m delighted that you are all here. and would like to i guess i ll begin with my opening statement, and then i ll give the other members a chance to come here. this is, i think, an important and timely hearing on the tax gap and the related role of offshore tax evasion. my republican colleagues and i may disagree on what makes a fair tax code. but we very much agree that everyone should pay what they owe. that princi
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sen. harris: than thank you. that is great to see all of you here. i am proud to represent the heart of las vegas. [indiscernible] thank you for being here. [honking] know, i wish the president a all theecovery, and patients and their families for trying to deal with this virus through no fault of their own. now is a good time to remind all of us to wear these masks, do social distancing, wash your hands as much as possible, and we will come out stronger on the others if we are in this together. thank you for doing that. [honking] and thank you to the biden-harris campaign for following those kinds of rules for all of us. that is why we are doing this. i love campaign season. i love going out there, shaking hands, kissing babies, seeing friends. thisis a new approach, drive-in rally. but it is leading to the notion of ridin with biden. [honking] ridin with biden, all the way to the white house. been a very difficult time for this community. whenever the economy has been h