Chris Van Hollen

I just wanted to underscore that point.

I agree, and I do appreciate your efforts to move people toward electronic filing for the reasons we have discussed.

Paper is the IRS' kryptonite, and the IRS is buried in it.

One of the frustrations, and I know you understand this, that a lot of taxpayers have, is they, if they get a Notice of Deficiency, and they want to get somebody on the line to explain it

You would be looking for technologies that would allow you to convert a paper return much more quickly.

Baltimore City will be ready to submit their proposal for the Reconnecting Communities Program that they--the Department makes an announcement.

I appreciate that. And I think all of us are hearing from our, you know, engineers, and construction firms about the need for this workforce.

I think we are worried about what will happen in November when, as I understand the process, the UN Security Council has to continue to authorize the presence of international forces, and if Putin exercises that veto it is a real problem.

Sustaining [sanctions] is going to be key, and expanding them is going to be key.

I think you, and the President, and the Secretary of Defense, the whole team have done a really good job in accelerating now the deployment of weapons.

I want to applaud you for moving forward on that effort and, also, applaud the President for nominating a Director of ATF, Steven Dettelbach, a good candidate.

We'd like to encourage your team to get it out because it is a serious situation there.

How quickly can we get them? Can you give us your commitment that you can get those out the door quickly?

I want to start with some thanks to you and President Biden and your team at the Justice Department for implementing something that many of us have pushed for a long time, which is a final rule with respect to ghost guns.

I look forward to supporting that budget request for the reasons you've laid out.

As the chief law enforcement officer, we expect you to work with us to make sure that the law is followed.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:22 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at 10 a.m…

So, Dr. Owens, one of the proposals that was in the House-passed Build Back Better agenda was a modest excise tax on stock buybacks.

I keep hearing from some of my Republican colleagues that the Trump tax cuts brought better outcomes for American workers.

Right. But if you look at the--what CBO does is the actual, the law, right, budget projection. It is paid for.

I think in terms of the near-term impact on inflation, to the extent that you have got tax revenue coming in, offsetting expenditures, in that sense, at least in the first number of years, it would be neutral.

I do not see it as interference. I see it as a very important public disclosure process.

I was here on this Committee when Republicans passed a $2 trillion tax cut, mostly for the very wealthy and big corporations, that increased our deficit.

We can reduce the cost of prescription drugs for American consumers and we can save money in Medicare.

We need to get on top of this. We have proposals that we presented here in the Congress.