Posted on 03/31/2009 3:22:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday to strengthen national service by increasing funding for thousands of volunteers.
The House approved 275-149 the Senate-passed Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, which now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.
"Just one month ago, in his address to Congress, President Obama called upon Congress to pass legislation 'to encourage a renewed spirit of national service for this and future generations,'" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. "Today, the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act is on its way to his desk to become law."
Obama congratulated the House on its bipartisan vote, saying he looked forward to signing the bill into law after he returns to Washington from his eight-day visit to Europe.
"Because of this legislation, millions of Americans at all stages of their lives will have new opportunities to serve their country," Obama said in a statement. "But while our government can provide every opportunity imaginable for us to serve our communities, now it is up to each of us to seize those opportunities."
Among other things, the bill would more than triple the number of positions in the AmeriCorps program, from 75,000 to 250,000 by 2017, and would create four new national service corps and several other initiatives, CNN reported. In addition, it would increase the existing AmeriCorps educational stipend offered to volunteers to $5,350 -- the same amount as the maximum Pell college grant -- and encourage senior volunteerism by providing a $1,000 reward to individuals age 55 and older who perform 350 hours of service,
The bill is projected to cost $6 billion over the next five years.
Patriot groups should start to demand funding under this program.
Hmmmmm...the Edward Kennedy Serve America Act.....
Does this mean we all have to get drunk, pick up a passenger and drive off a bridge, leaving the passenger to drown???
The Socialist utopia rises. Red Storm Rising.....
Obama Brownshirts.
The NRA could always use a few volunteers.
Obama Brownshirts.
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You can bank on it. They want to control every aspect of your life. I think Obama already knows he is a one-term “president”.
$1,000 is not enough for a senior over 55 to be put in a position of working beside a flea-bitten, drug-induced, maggot lib...
The strings attached will make it impossible for groups like NRA, etc to use this funding. You can bet on it.
So Boomers will be put to work for less than $3 an hour. I guess minimum wage doesn't apply after age 55.
Then Obama will say that the Boomers (who paid into Social Security for forty-plus years) don't need Social Security since they have their new "volunteer" jobs.
I get it.
Too bad they never passed the Mary Jo Kopechne Personal Responsibility Act of 1969.
The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act - Vote Passed (79-19, 1 Not Voting)
The Senate passed this national service bill which would increase the number of AmeriCorps volunteers from 75,000 to 250,000 and designate September 11 as a national day of service and remembrance.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison voted YES......send e-mail or see bio
Sen. John Cornyn voted NO......send e-mail or see bio
I thought this was the (give) act or is this another one?
They just keep pushing the marker a little closer. They will rue the day.
You can't be serious.
With ACORN to provide the taxpayer-funded vote fraud, and a Democrat Congress to change the Presidential Term-Limit Law, this guy thinks he's President For Life.
Every single Rat in the House voted for this. They own it.
Can I volunteer to teach people to shoot at my local gunclub?
This is the GIVE Act.
Why is it I start to feel like that woman in CT who was mauled by chimp everytime I read that one of Barky’s legislative proposals is voted and approved?
This is like a weird little bribe for old people because seniors and baby boomers retirement is totally screwed because of the election of Obama.
The market started tanking after Hillary “lost” the nomination. I cannot believe Republicans voted for this. They have no clue.
One thing that's in is you can't be engaged in any type of religious instruction. They're going after the clergy and lay people like Sunday School teachers and even, I suppose, Bible instructors.
Hurry, hurry, step right up...name crap after Kennedy before he meets his maker....
>>>> Edward Kennedy Serve America Act.....
Does this mean we all have to get drunk, pick up a passenger and drive off a bridge, leaving the passenger to drown??? <<<<<<
Yep, and it also means one must grope college-aged sweeties who are unescorted in public elevators.
So my former girlfriend of many years ago was told to beware of when she interned at Kennedy’s Boston office.
ACORN and their sister oganization SEIU (illegal alien union) along with the brownshirts will run the country.
Will this be something like the CCCs or the WPA (or as my grandmaw used to call it...”We Piddle Around”)?;-D
Don’t just volunteer....ask for FUNDING! C’mon people. We hafta stimulate the economy!
INTREP
McCain voted Yes....
Martinez (rino-FL) voted Yes....
I am just Shocked! ;-)
Did the mandatory service section (Section 7 I think) survive the reconciliation process?
So much so, that I’m thinking about becoming at least a pistol instructor. Maybe rifle too.
26 of them
Democratic 249 Yeas 5 Not Voting
Republican 26 Yeas 149 Neas 3 Not Voting
Independent
TOTALS 275 Yeas 149 Neas 8 Not Voting
Let’s do it for Ted!
My family gave at the office, Philippines, Alaska , Italy, Viet Nam... It seems that the rats want to get a lock on service doing what? Will government take over and rename community service?
FYI - the presidential term limit ‘law’ is the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. It will take two-thirds of the states to pass any amendment to supersede or repeal it.
Of course we all realize Obama doesn’t care diddlum-squat about the Constitution in the 1st place.
He said he could complete all he wanted to complete in one term.
If not, great, but it's still just more tax dollars wasted. If so, this is where the revolution begins. I will NOT allow anyone in my family nor friends be pressed into Obami's civilian, quasi-military "homeland defense force that equals our military", or whatever he's calling it today.
That will be the line in the sand. I BS you not! I doubt 100's of thousands will allow it, either.
Many will come forward to "swerve" America.
But in order for that swervice to begin, a crisis must be created.
And that crisis will be Zero wrecking our economy.
At least Zero will try.
I put my money on the capitalists.
And we folks don't want any nose pickin' brown shirts 'roun heah!
Swerve you traitors, swerve!!!!!
Join the US Marine Corps. and be on the right side.
Ping.
He said he could complete all he wanted to complete in one term.
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It clearly shows his radicalism, perverted purpose for America, and just how dangerous he and his complicit Congress really are to the freedom, security, economy and health of the American citizen.
Nelson and Martinez both voted for it. Screw them both.
We are SO long past the two (actually one) party system. It is now a fight between Constitutionalists/Free Men and the Utopian socialists who believe in equal outcome, rather than equal opportunity.
I was so hoping that this was a satire.
These volunteers will be sequestered in the inner cities where they’ll be raped, robbed and murdered.
I agree.
He’ll just issue an executive order making himself president for life.
Great idea!
How about: The Crap Act
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