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
Center for strategic and International Studies Global Security forum. Its about an hour and 20 minutes. Ladies, we are back. Thank you for joining us. I would like to introduce dr. Seth jones, Senior Vice President and director of the International Security program here at csis. Seth has done work on the Defense Industrial base, china, ukraine, israelgaza, terrorism, many themes likely to come up in his panel discussion. We are fortunate to be joined by all six vice chiefs of staff of the military services. The theme of todays forum is gathering strength, how we must use american strength to navigate these security challenges facing our country. Our military forces are a source of american strength, but our military advantage is not guaranteed. The panel will discuss what it takes to maintain that advantage and prepare for the environment we are facing. I am pleased to hand off to seth. Dr. Jones thank you and thanks to all the team who put this Security Forum together. Where we sit, f
Buckeye broadband supports cspan as a public servicelong with these other providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Our coop next, a group of generals and admirals from the six branches of the u. S. Military discuss modern welfare warfare and preparedness. Topics include collaboration within the military and industry and Lessons Learned from regions and conflicts such as the indo pacific and the Russia Ukraine war. This discussion was part of the center for strategic and International Studies Global Security forum. Its about an hour and 20 minutes. Ladies, we are back. Thank you for joining us. I would like to introduce dr. Seth jones, Senior Vice President and director of the International Security program here at csis. Seth has done work on the Defense Industrial base, china, ukraine, israelgaza, terrorism, many themes likely to come up in his panel discussion. We are fortunate to be joined by all six vice chiefs of staff of the military services. The theme of todays forum
U. S. Senate here on cspan2. The senate will come to order. The chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the king of glory, your never failing providence sustains us. Today, inspire our lawmakers with the music of your wisdom that they may bring hope, joy, and unity to our nation and world. Remind our senators that even in the darkness, you are a sure guide. Lord, energize them to strive, to transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. And lord, in this new year, go before us to show us the way, behind us to press us forward, beside us to give us courage, above us to provide protection. And within us to give us your wisdom and discernment. We pray in your loving name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presidin
In moscow thanks for choosing us to update you on whats happening around the world this hour first off we go to the exotic portuguese island of tests in the azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean but its in desperate need of decontamination decades of u. S. Air force activity have left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say theyre worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. The Latino Community but back to twenty thousand this is the constant loss of like six thousand releases that never a constant one now thats eighteen twenty twenty thousand twenty thousand twenty thousand. New them freely and its time to run away from here as were ready to stay too long twenty thousand to come who is now the boss golf is already a substantial body. Of what we have a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by having much goes on hydrocarbons the heavy metals have series of facts on how the very high levels of lead in som