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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysbehc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GPO FINANCIAL SERVICES AND GENERAL GOV- ERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023 TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2022 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:43 p.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Chris Van Hollen, (Chair) presiding. Present: Senators Van Hollen, Coons, Durbin, Manchin, Hyde- Smith, Moran, Boozman, and Kennedy. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR CHRIS VAN HOLLEN Senator VAN HOLLEN. Good afternoon. This hearing will come to order. And I want to start by welcoming our witness, IRS Commis- sioner Charles Rettig. Commissioner Rettig, thank you for your service. Thank you for being here. And I also want to take this opportunity to thank your staff for their professionalism and partnership, both preparing for the hearing, but throughout this Congress. The IRS has been consistently receptive to the work of our Com- mittee, and my team and I are grateful to you and your team for your cooperation. At the outset I would like to highlight your diligent efforts over the past 2 years to implement several new COVID relief programs, especially those we passed under the American Rescue Plan. And because of the American Rescue Plan nearly three million Mary- land families received direct relief payments of $1,400 a person, over one million Maryland children benefited from new tax cuts for families, you know, through the expansion of the Child Tax Credit, and over 250,000 Maryland workers got a tax break through the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. The IRS played a key role in delivering these funds to Americans across the country. You did that while also working tirelessly to protect your own employees from COVID-19. The obstacles were enormous, but you and your agency delivered. And I want to salute you and the good men and women of the IRS who helped get that vital relief out the door. We also know that the agency, the IRS, continues to be under- funded and understaffed. And the massive tax return processing (1)

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