Posted on 03/18/2009 8:29:14 AM PDT by alex
A bill tripling the size of the AmeriCorps program that is scheduled for a House vote Wednesday would also create fellowships for people 55 and older and a separate Summer of Service program for middle and high school student volunteers....
Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., have introduced a similar measure that also adds 175,000 positions to AmeriCorps. A Senate committee is scheduled to vote on its legislation on Wednesday and it could come before the full Senate for a vote as early as next week.
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How long before they find a reason to arm them, or use them as a “force multiplier?”
There have long been rumors concerning the senator’s private proclivities. Perhaps he’s ripe for blackmail. I’m still waiting for him to go balistic over the Utah Escalante Staircase land grab by Slick Willy.
Where do I go online to follow up on this legislation?
How can I find out if this passed or not?
Been that way for years.
This latest right after he supported allowing D.C. to have an unConstitutional seat in the House along with another seat for his state. A bonehead move, since he would have gotten the new seat soon anyway based on the Constitution.
Better yet... BOTH!!!
Not clergy. Cardinals over at the Vatican. They have to retire so they can't be elected pope.
Mind you, I'm not Catholic so I may be wrong about the details. I thought I remembered hearing about a local bishop that had to retire.
With unemployment rising all Congresscritters will vote to take 175,000 people out of the labor market. Heck they may even count them as employed and make the unemployment rate appear artificially low.
Of course we could use 175,000 more military personnel. But alas we will probably get this. The silver lining is most of them will grow up and know from the inside about such government programs.
Hatch is a joke and has been for many many years. I can’t remember when he wasn’t.
You mean his limp wristed handshake and his sweet and soft way of speaking? Far be it from me to call out the Mormon type feigned humility.
Yes Feigning is the latest buzz word. Even Hussein has started dropping that word around town. What ever happened to gravitas?
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