Require the Internal Revenue Service to establish a fellowship program to recruit qualified data scientists to partner with tax law specialists and improve tax administration analytics, services, and enforcement.

David Schweikert · Arizona · Republican

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Commitment kind: action. Promised action: Require the Internal Revenue Service to establish a fellowship program to recruit qualified data scientists to partner with tax law specialists.. Promised outcome: Improve core tax administration activities in services and enforcement through better data, analytics, statistics, and models.. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired. H.R. 7972, Taxpayer Workforce Modernization Act, 119th Congress, 2nd Session; sponsored by David Schweikert and reported in House on 2026-09-08.

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To require the Internal Revenue Service to establish a fellowship program within the Internal Revenue Service to recruit qualified data scientists to partner with tax law specialists and provide insights and identify emerging and complex issues in tax administration, ranging from data acquisition and quality through developing advanced analytics, statistics, and models to improve core tax administration activities in services and enforcement.

Schweikert sponsored H.R. 7972, a bill requiring the IRS to create a fellowship program for data scientists to work with tax law specialists on tax administration issues.

H.R. 7972 (RH) - Taxpayer Workforce Modernization Act - BILLS-119hr7972rh | Content Details | GovInfo
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Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo shows Schweikert's bill advanced only to reported-in-House status as of the latest official action located, so the IRS fellowship requirement had not been enacted.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R. 7972 (RH) - Taxpayer Workforce Modernization Act - BILLS-119hr7972rh | Content Details | GovInfo
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shall establish within the Internal Revenue Service a fellowship program (hereinafter known as the ``program'') to recruit qualified data scientists

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The reported bill text directly matches the commitment, documenting a concrete legislative attempt but not delivery without enactment or implementation.

unresolved same_term A for effort

H.R. 7972 Reported in House - Taxpayer Workforce Modernization Act
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Public state: pending As of 2026-09-22 · verified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): unresolved. same_term A for effort

The verified bill text matches the promised IRS data-scientist fellowship requirement, and verified evidence shows H.R. 7972 was reported in the House, committed to the Committee of the Whole, and ordered printed. That documents a concrete legislative effort, but not enactment or IRS implementation. With no documented deadline expired as of 2026-09-22, the enactment/outcome promise remains unresolved rather than delivered or never fulfilled.

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