Companies and more. Including spark light. At spark light it is our home too and we are facing our greast challenge and that is why we are working around the clock to keep you connected. We are doing our part so you can do yours. Sparklight supports cspan along with these other Television Providers giving you a front roe seat to democracy. Irs commissioner testifies on Child Tax Credit and the use of Artificial Intelligence in auditing tax returns. The topic of the earned income tax credit fraud was also discussed. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Before we began i now, i know the committee will come ft order. Before we begin, i know i speak for everyone here when i wish our Ranking Member a happy birthday, yesterday. We are supposed to have some cake later so we need to celebrate. But, a late happy birthday and we appreciate serving with you. Thank you commissioner for appearing before the ways and Means Co
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The final year of Martin Luther king, jr. You can watch them all at cspan. Org. Monday night on the communicators, martin cooper, inventor of the cell phone, on spectrum issues and providing for mobile phone service providers. The spectrum of technology it includes a whole bunch of things. It includes a some new technology that is just starting to become laboratory available where we can use satellites to create a model of the world so that when somebody transmits they will know whether they will interview with somebody else. You put all these things together i hesitate to tell you how much more efficient we could be because you would laugh me out of this room. We are talking not about tens of times improvement or hundreds or thousands, but millions of times improvement. That is not as crazy as it sounds. We are a trillion times more efficient than we were in marconis time. The product of being a million times more efficient in the next 20 or 30 years is not as crazy as it sounds. Mond