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
Getting it done. That doesnt seem to be a big issue in the house. The bigger battle is in the senate. Theyre scrambling to make it happen. A lot of this got wobbly yesterday, ron johnson, republican senator from wisconsin, is a no vote if they dont make changes to provisions that favor Big Companies rather than smaller companies. The ones fueling todays rally in the markets, not necessarily the small ones are not even publiclytraded. We are on that. Were also awaiting any remarks the president might make when he comes out of those meetings. If he plans to make remarks, hearing from Speaker Paul Ryan. When it comes to the back and forth on individual mandate, the senate lead the way there. So the senate will be keeping that as part of its plan to shelf the mandate, the one that requires you to buy health insurance. That isnt going down well with some republicans. Could be a deal breaker. Way to early to tell. Maybe well get a sense of all of that from the speaker. Reporter neil, get to
I want to thank my children, alicia, here everyday with me in court and brought my lovely granddaughter, evangelina to new jersey, so i could remember what i had to fight on for, my son, rob, who testified on my behalf and then joined his sister in court and kept me company and even let me beat him in a round of golf. Im so blessed to have two great children. I love you so much, i cant i cant truly thank you. I want to thank my sister and her husband, pete, their presence in the bible passages my sister would send me every morning were an incredible strength to me. I want to thank the melgen family for their Constant Friendship and their faith in our innocence. I wish my dear friend, sal, success in his continuing search for justice. I want to thank my defense team as well as dr. Melgens attorneys, abbey law, ne nations premier defense attorney, who methodically tore apart the governments case, his partner, jenny cramer, former prosecutor turned advocate for justice, ray brown, whose i
Grace i was delivered from an unjust prosecution. I want to thank my children, alicia, here everyday with me in court and brought my lovely granddaughter, evangelina to new jersey, so i could remember what i had to fight on for, my son, rob, who testified on my behalf and then joined his sister in court and kept me company and even let me beat him in a round of golf. Im so blessed to have two great children. I love you so much, i cant i cant truly thank you. I want to thank my sister and her husband, pete, their presence in the bible passages my sister would send me every morning were an incredible strength to me. I want to thank the melgen family for their Constant Friendship and their faith in our innocence. I wish my dear friend, sal, success in his continuing search for justice. I want to thank my defense team as well as dr. Melgens attorneys, abbey law, ne nations premier defense attorney, who methodically tore apart the governments case, his partner, jenny cramer, former prosecut