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National service bill clears Congress (The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act)
United Press International ^ | March 31, 2009

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.


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Here come the Obama Youth. Raise your hand if you believe that $6 billion dollar figure...
1 posted on 03/31/2009 3:22:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Patriot groups should start to demand funding under this program.


2 posted on 03/31/2009 3:24:32 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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???


3 posted on 03/31/2009 3:25:43 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Proud Citizen of the Gator Nation!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Socialist utopia rises. Red Storm Rising.....


4 posted on 03/31/2009 3:26:20 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama Brownshirts.


5 posted on 03/31/2009 3:28:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: April Lexington

The NRA could always use a few volunteers.


6 posted on 03/31/2009 3:29:58 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: Jim Robinson

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”.


7 posted on 03/31/2009 3:31:27 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

$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...


8 posted on 03/31/2009 3:31:36 PM PDT by xtinct ("There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum)
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To: King Moonracer

The strings attached will make it impossible for groups like NRA, etc to use this funding. You can bet on it.


9 posted on 03/31/2009 3:32:22 PM PDT by Pantera
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"encourage senior volunteerism by providing a $1,000 reward to individuals age 55 and older who perform 350 hours of service"

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.

10 posted on 03/31/2009 3:32:34 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too bad they never passed the Mary Jo Kopechne Personal Responsibility Act of 1969.


11 posted on 03/31/2009 3:32:47 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


12 posted on 03/31/2009 3:33:47 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?), Thug Washington Joker!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought this was the (give) act or is this another one?


13 posted on 03/31/2009 3:34:10 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Don't tread on me)
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To: EagleUSA
The Socialist utopia rises. Red Storm Rising.....

They just keep pushing the marker a little closer. They will rue the day.

14 posted on 03/31/2009 3:34:12 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: EagleUSA
"I think Obama already knows he is a one-term “president”."

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.

15 posted on 03/31/2009 3:34:38 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Every single Rat in the House voted for this. They own it.


16 posted on 03/31/2009 3:34:51 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: April Lexington

Can I volunteer to teach people to shoot at my local gunclub?


17 posted on 03/31/2009 3:35:16 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: vigilante2
I thought this was the (give) act or is this another one?

This is the GIVE Act.

18 posted on 03/31/2009 3:35:49 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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?


19 posted on 03/31/2009 3:36:11 PM PDT by Commander X (Liberalism: Spurring the decay of the USA)
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To: ChicagahAl

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.


20 posted on 03/31/2009 3:38:42 PM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Corrected headline should read "the Edward M. Kennedy serve Services America Act"
21 posted on 03/31/2009 3:38:56 PM PDT by slumber1
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To: Pantera
The strings attached will make it impossible for groups like NRA, etc to use this funding. You can bet on it.

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.

22 posted on 03/31/2009 3:39:22 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hurry, hurry, step right up...name crap after Kennedy before he meets his maker....


23 posted on 03/31/2009 3:40:02 PM PDT by lacrew (Obama and cabinet: Fool and the Gang)
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To: GatorGirl

>>>> 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.


24 posted on 03/31/2009 3:40:40 PM PDT by angkor
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To: ChicagahAl

ACORN and their sister oganization SEIU (illegal alien union) along with the brownshirts will run the country.


25 posted on 03/31/2009 3:41:40 PM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will this be something like the CCCs or the WPA (or as my grandmaw used to call it...”We Piddle Around”)?;-D


26 posted on 03/31/2009 3:42:18 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (14. Guns only have two enemies: rust and politicians.)
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To: LukeL

Don’t just volunteer....ask for FUNDING! C’mon people. We hafta stimulate the economy!


27 posted on 03/31/2009 3:44:06 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"To serve america"


28 posted on 03/31/2009 3:46:22 PM PDT by Perdogg (Go Tarheels)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

INTREP


29 posted on 03/31/2009 3:47:45 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

McCain voted Yes....
Martinez (rino-FL) voted Yes....

I am just Shocked! ;-)


30 posted on 03/31/2009 3:48:00 PM PDT by Normal4me
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did the mandatory service section (Section 7 I think) survive the reconciliation process?


31 posted on 03/31/2009 3:48:10 PM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: King Moonracer

So much so, that I’m thinking about becoming at least a pistol instructor. Maybe rifle too.


32 posted on 03/31/2009 3:49:31 PM PDT by fightinbluhen51 ("MOLON LABE")
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To: Frantzie
I cannot believe Republicans voted for this. They have no clue.

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

33 posted on 03/31/2009 3:50:29 PM PDT by OBXWanderer
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To: Normal4me

Let’s do it for Ted!


34 posted on 03/31/2009 3:51:34 PM PDT by fightinbluhen51 ("MOLON LABE")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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?


35 posted on 03/31/2009 3:53:57 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: ChicagahAl

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.


36 posted on 03/31/2009 3:53:58 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: EagleUSA

He said he could complete all he wanted to complete in one term.


37 posted on 03/31/2009 3:55:22 PM PDT by goldi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ah, from the concept of "a plan to REQUIRE 50 hours of community service", aka, "Mandatory Volunteerism."

Let's see... if Obama feels he's justified in asking for a CEO to step down because the government is helping pay the bills, I wonder what else he will feel justified to do for students receiving school lunches, PELL grants or other "government assistance"?

Remember this from his website back in November, which was quickly changed when it's implications became readily apparent?:


38 posted on 03/31/2009 3:56:56 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jim Robinson; Neil E. Wright; Bob J
Was the "mandatory service" language that was dropped from the House bill re-instated in the Senate/House conference committee? Does anyone know?

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.

39 posted on 03/31/2009 3:56:58 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
OH YES!

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.

40 posted on 03/31/2009 3:58:22 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule, and derision. (member NRA)
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To: joygrace

Ping.


41 posted on 03/31/2009 3:59:34 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: goldi

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.


42 posted on 03/31/2009 3:59:40 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Nelson and Martinez both voted for it. Screw them both.


43 posted on 03/31/2009 4:02:22 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: Frantzie; Jim Robinson; Neil E. Wright; Bob J
"I cannot believe Republicans voted for this. They have no clue."

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.

44 posted on 03/31/2009 4:02:36 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever.)
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To: EagleUSA
Looks more like he thinks he is a dictator! than a one termer.
45 posted on 03/31/2009 4:03:01 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was so hoping that this was a satire.


46 posted on 03/31/2009 4:03:31 PM PDT by thile44 (Simplicity is too complex.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These volunteers will be sequestered in the inner cities where they’ll be raped, robbed and murdered.


47 posted on 03/31/2009 4:03:38 PM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: EagleUSA

I agree.


48 posted on 03/31/2009 4:03:48 PM PDT by goldi
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To: EagleUSA

He’ll just issue an executive order making himself president for life.


49 posted on 03/31/2009 4:04:30 PM PDT by nobama08
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To: lacrew
Hurry, hurry, step right up...name crap after Kennedy before he meets his maker....

Great idea!

How about: The Crap Act

50 posted on 03/31/2009 4:07:00 PM PDT by glock rocks (candy apple purple. I don't have ADD, it's just... do you like waffles?)
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