Smith, Jason: the committee will come to order before we get started I I want to first recognize our vice chairman of the committee mr. Buchanan on his well-earned retirement from Congress Vern Vern brought back did you not know that but I want to say he's been a wonderful vice chair serving serving alongside this time and we're going to miss him he has been very very focused on bipartisan issues he was he was living cool good health and preventive care before Maha ever existed this was a huge focus of mr. Buchanan who also serves as the the chairman of the health subcommittee he still has a full year to be with us he's gonna do a lot of great stuff we're gonna deliver but we're definitely gonna miss him on on this side side of the aisle mr. Neal
Neal, Richard E.: thanks chairman I think I speak for everybody on our side the sense of collegiality that he brought the fact that there was very little anger in his tone the way he spoke to issues on the committee and on the floor they were anything but divisive and at the same time he was quite funny to talk to he had not only a great sense of humor smart smart guy whatever differences we had I think had, I think, uh, oftentimes were settled because of the tone of the net and the nature of the conversation that we would have. So a really good guy.
Smith, Jason: Um, today's hearing continues our investigation into the money trails behind tax-tax-exempt organizations failing to operate within their stated tax-exempted purpose in sowing chaos, fueling anti-Semitism and interfering in elections across America. We have held hearings exposing many of the main players who use their tax-exempt status in concerning and problematic ways. We've passed legislation out of this committee with strong support from Republicans and Democrats to hold bad actors accountable. We referred, in fact, 11 tax-exempt groups to the Biden and Trump IRS, the same ones, for investigation and possible, possible revocation of their tax-exempt status. What our investigations have found should disturb every single American. Certain tax-exempt organizations funded, funded by foreign donors, are exploiting their lucrative U.S. tax benefits to incite violence and unrest in our communities and destabilize our political process all to the benefit of the foreign flags their donors fly. Several, including Alliance for Global Justice, which I called on the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of, are suspected of having ties to terrorist groups and using those close connections to funnel resources to support terrorism. Groups like Sammy Dune, a sham charity affiliated with the PFLP and designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. Treasury. These are all facts. This is reality. Other tax-exempt organizations are masking the flow of foreign money by allowing separate entities to utilize their tax-exempt status in order to hold riots across the United States featuring intimidation and violence. Many of these groups, like American Muslims for Palestine, were...