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Dick Durbin: “What about answering the phone at the IRS? You reduced your performance goal from providing telephone assistance from 82…”

On the recordJune 8, 2009
What about answering the phone at the IRS? You reduced your performance goal from providing telephone assistance from 82 percent last year to 77 percent this year.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin questions the IRS's reduced performance goals for telephone assistance.

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