Testifies the 2024 tax Filing Season and President Biden 2025 budget request for the agency. During the hearing the commission from the Senate Finance committee and irs efforts in improving Taxpayer Services. [background noises] finest commando come to order. Today, the Committee Meets to discuss irs budget and tax Filing Season was closed yesterday. I want to thank commissioner for being here on a very busy time for everybody at the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss. One that is certainly important to the American People direct file. Anyone who denies the direct file pilot was a huge success,re my guess is you are living in another universe but its open to a fairly small percentage of taxpayers but the reviews i got from its initial users were overwhelmingly positive. It seems like a whole lot of people were very stunned that a federal agency, particularly one as frequently vilified as the irs was able to build a helpful website that works. The tens of thousands of taxpayers
[inaudible conversations] welcome to arlington vermont on booktv. Located on Lake Champlain about 45 minutes south of the Canadian Border. Its home to the university of vermont and its the states most populous city with about 42,000 residents. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners over the next hour we will feature the Literary Committee including author Willard Sterne Randall on the war of 1812. A lot of people have misconceptions about the war of 1812. They think it was all about the star spangled banner and the british attack on washington and it was not very important like a hiccup in history. It had been a long struggle with the british over trade and writes and basically to take us back so its much more important than the way its taught in school. We begin our special feature in burlington with bill mahers and Jeff Danziger on their book the full monty, vermont in the age of trump. About a month before trump was elected i had openheart surgery and so i was not in great shap
Misconceptions about the war of 1812. They think that it was all about the starspangled banner and the british attack on washington and that it was not very important like a hiccup in history. There had been a long struggle with the british over trades and rights. The british wanted basically to take us back. Its much more important in the way its taught in school. We began our special feature unpredicted bill mayors and Jeff Danziger on their book the full monty, vermont in the age of trump. About a month before trump was elected i had open heart surgery, and so i was not in great shape and i was in even worse shape when this election happened and i thought what a wretched birthday present that was. So i think like a lot of people who did not vote for him, i was pretty depressed for a month or six weeks, and gradually we, with most things, you start to get over them but it still wrangled on me and i just didnt want to sit and be frustrated all the time so started to think what can i d
Are particularly strong with 20th century vermont members of congress who tend to have long tenures in congress. Goerge george aiken served in until 1974 until 1974. Aiken was a republican, a moderate republican. He was known for having these regular breakfasts with the leader of the democrats in the senate in the lunch room. He had a strong relationship with the white house. He kept a diary in his later years of being senator. He wouldnt enter these weekly enterenteruld would these weekly entries, a very significant historical event. August 10, 1874. Augustlks about him 10, 1974, talks about being at his home. Speaking, i arrived at my home on friday. There was one cucumber big enough to pick. Monday, there were 30 cucumbers big enough to pick. This is an important diary for u. S. Political events, for the nation. Six, he get to page finally gets to the big news of week, the big sensation the resignation of Richard Nixon as president. Although i constantly oppose resignation on his pa
Been canceled as of this moment. All lanes have remained open. However, it looks like were still seeing a few cones out in that area. Well keep a close eye on any backup. We have Team Coverage of that crash on 280. Lets get straight to today in the bays tom jensen who has been on the scene this morning talking to investigators. Tom, you actually had to move locations at one point. What kind of updates do you have . Reporter we had to be moved from the location because theyre opening the lanes right now. You can see the traffic at least where we are south of the accident scene, all five lanes are open. We did notice when we were coming down here, there were still flares in a couple lanes. That might be causing a bit of a backup. This is a horrific accident, if we can go to the video we got earlier today. Wrongway driver, a volkswagen heading northbound in the southbound hit the red car. The engine was actually blown out of the vehicle and was wrolg down the highway. They had to exkate t