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National Service Corps Bill Clears Senate Hurdle
nytimes.com ^ | 3/23/09 | Kate Phillips

Posted on 03/23/2009 10:21:53 PM PDT by melt

Following overwhelming House passage last week, the Senate tonight voted 74 to 14 on a procedural move that essentially guarantees a major expansion of a national service corps, a cornerstone of volunteerism that dates back to the era of President Kennedy. It’s akin to a call to arms by President Obama, who has harkened back to those early days to demand giving back by those who voted for him.

In fact, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the senior Democrat from Massachusetts whose battle with brain cancer has oft kept him absent from the Senate these days, appeared on the floor to welcomes all around as he cast his approving vote as a co-sponsor.

From President Kennedy’s days to the creation of Americorps by then President Bill Clinton, the notion of public service has become a rallying cry. Tonight’s vote, propelled by President Obama’s urging of an expansion, would mean a growth in such work from 75,000 community service jobs to 250,000.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost of the Senate bill at least would be an outlay for the fiscal year 2010 of $418 million to about $5.7 billion from 2010 through 2014.

It’s an historic vote in the sense that a national service corps, an army dispersed to help with education, health services and the environment, would vastly enlarge the notion of “community organizing,” and allow, as Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, said tonight, for about 7 million people to be engaged in such work.

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To: Travis T. OJustice

“So, while one “volunteers”, they lose their constitutional rights?”

Aren’t active military fols supposed to refrain from political activities?

Moot, though, the Senate version does not have that section.


81 posted on 03/24/2009 7:19:32 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: polymuser
Just pulling out the last part of your post...

What "CORPORATION" is this they refer to? A CORPORATION run by the government? A New one? An old one? One that already exists, but they are expanding it?

Inquiring minds, and all that! LOL
82 posted on 03/24/2009 7:21:01 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: LibertyRocks
the majority of Americans just want to be “left alone”

And leaving people alone is antithetical to the ideology of those who currently have power and seek to entrench themselves.

see tagline

83 posted on 03/24/2009 7:21:36 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: goldi

The unwashed masses are jumping for joy a the free stuff.

this is essentially UNIONIZING the volunteers so they get more free stuff.

Obama is comming across as a sugar daddy for the urban sewer dweller class.


84 posted on 03/24/2009 7:22:14 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: melt

bump


85 posted on 03/24/2009 7:22:19 AM PDT by annieokie
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To: Fiddlstix; melt; Alamo-Girl; onyx; ALOHA RONNIE; SpookBrat; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; ...

OMG !!

Change that I can do WITHOUT !!! :(

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Pingin’ my General Interest and Texas Lists here.

Ping! Ping! Ping!


86 posted on 03/24/2009 7:26:33 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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To: HollyB

Thank you too Holly. You would not believe how many people are looking at the site.


87 posted on 03/24/2009 7:28:41 AM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: longtermmemmory

EVERY aspect of 0bama’s agenda falls under the heading of “reparations”.


88 posted on 03/24/2009 7:30:05 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: MeekOneGOP
KBH voted FOR cloture and Cornyn did not vote? What is wrong with that picture? Both will be getting a letter from this PO’ed Texan.
89 posted on 03/24/2009 7:38:37 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It took almost 250 years to make the USA great and 30 days for "The Failure" BO to tear it down.)
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To: Arrowhead1952
"KBH voted FOR cloture and Cornyn did not vote? What is wrong with that picture?"

There has never been any question in my mind WRT KBH, she is an authoritarian, and a globalist; Cornyn has some similar tendencies, but seems to be trying to distance himself from his past voting habits. I don't buy it.

90 posted on 03/24/2009 7:43:00 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: MeekOneGOP

This is not Good Meek.

thanks for the ping.


91 posted on 03/24/2009 7:43:06 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (We are all equal here but some of us are more equal than others.)
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To: DBrow

It is actually under Sec. 1304, amending the National and Community Service Act of 1990, Section 125, to become “PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS” & what follows (it’s currently Sec. 125 12575 “Training and technical assistance”). At least that’s what I’m seeing.


92 posted on 03/24/2009 7:44:17 AM PDT by polymuser ("We have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!" (HRC))
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To: melt

The face of the new Corps will be black and female, so it will be impossible to make the MSM understand the similarities to the SA. Any columnist who dares to draw the comparison will instantly shouted down as racist.


93 posted on 03/24/2009 7:47:42 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("If you cannot pick it up and run with it, you don't really own it." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: polymuser

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:s277rs.txt.pdf

Here’s what I’m using, S 277 as reported in Senate. “Prohibited” is not in any title and shows once in the body. I wonder what’s wrong?


94 posted on 03/24/2009 8:03:03 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

PING!


95 posted on 03/24/2009 8:03:12 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: microgood
“In addition, Senator Hatch mentioned that the Rev. Rick Warren, the evangelical minister of Saddleback Church and author of “A Purpose Driven Life,” was an enthusiastic supporter of this effort...

This shows how much trouble we are really in.”

Just look up Rick Warren and P.E.A.C.E. Plan and Apostasy and see what comes up.

Rick Warren speaking at the Davos World Economic Forum:

“At the World Economic Forum in Davos you will hear endlessly recited the importance of public and private partnerships in attacking global problems. While this is certainly essential, it is not enough. Neither business nor government has the universal distribution, the ARMY of volunteers or the credibility in villages to get the job done. A one- or two-legged stool will fall over. You need three legs.”

-”The Tyranny of 3-legged Branding”
http://herescope.blogspot.com/2007/06/tyranny-of-3-legged-branding.html

96 posted on 03/24/2009 8:05:18 AM PDT by 444Flyer (Don't beLIEve Obama.............................Never give up, never give in, never give out!)
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To: melt; rabscuttle
The bill enjoyed extraordinary bipartisan support, including namely the major co-sponsor, Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, who tonight even recommended reading the biography of R. Sargent Shriver, relative by marriage to the Kennedys and who directed the original Peace Corps from 1961 to 1966.

In addition, Senator Hatch mentioned that the Rev. Rick Warren, the evangelical minister of Saddleback Church and author of “A Purpose Driven Life,” was an enthusiastic supporter of this effort, as was Senator John McCain, the former Republican presidential nominee. The latter’s support, to Senator Hatch, demonstrated the exceptional bipartisan backing of the expansion.

Effin' quislings.

97 posted on 03/24/2009 8:07:30 AM PDT by TADSLOS ( Join the Conservative Revolution! http://falconparty.com/)
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To: MeekOneGOP

It’s time for Texas to cut out from the herd.


98 posted on 03/24/2009 8:08:52 AM PDT by TADSLOS ( Join the Conservative Revolution! http://falconparty.com/)
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To: HollyB
Thanks Holly B! Cowardly and sneaky passing this under cover of night.
99 posted on 03/24/2009 8:13:51 AM PDT by 444Flyer (Don't beLIEve Obama.............................Never give up, never give in, never give out!)
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To: borntobeagle

I don’t wear tin foil at all, but starting to look like time to wrap the old noggin. Wow, that is funny how close together we posted the same link.


100 posted on 03/24/2009 8:15:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber (Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme looks remarkably similar to the way Social Security works)
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