I want to thank you for being here again and just sharing a perspective.

As a matter of fact, I and a coalition of community agencies just returned on Saturday from visiting the Sheridan facility as part of Fatherhood Week and Fatherhood Day, and it was off the charts.

I would certainly like to work with you to try and help reduce and alleviate them.

peace is not only found in treaties, covenants, and charters, but in the hearts of men.

I want to thank all of the witnesses for the care and attention that you have given to your responses and to your positions.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And before I begin my statement, I want to thank you for the hearing and thank the witnesses for coming.

I want to convey all of our best wishes to our colleague, Dwight Evans, who could not join in person today.

My Republican colleagues falsely claim that they want the Child Tax Credit to go only to working parents.

The only real deliverables were growing the bank accounts of the wealthy and well-connected.

I helped champion many of the key 2021 EITC and CDCTC enhancements like lowering the EITC age to 19 for all workers, or 18 for foster or homeless youth, and giving working parents up to $8,000 for child care expenses.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, Commissioner, let me welcome and thank you and the Internal Revenue Services for its outstanding success in ensuring a fairer tax system in which the wealthy and well-connected pay their fair share.