Posted on 03/16/2009 8:19:53 PM PDT by joygrace
Tonight, Republican Minority Whip Eric Cantor announced an update to the House Schedule for this week. H.R. 1388, The Give Act, is scheduled for Wednesday. Note: The title is “Anticipated Floor Schedule.”
The Whipping Post states, “On Wednesday, the House will meet at 10:00 a.m. for legislative business.
H.R. 1388 - Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act (Subject to a Rule)
(Sponsored by Rep. McCarthy (NY) / Education and Labor Committee)
(Excerpt) Read more at republicanwhip.house.gov ...
My husband said he heard Mark Levine talking about it on his show today. He only heard the last few minutes so didn’t know what all was being said. Hopefully other talk radio shows will pick up on it and get it publicized before they are able to sneak this one through a vote in the House.
Glad to hear Levine was talking about it.
I wonder if it’ll be front page news tomorrow?
Cost is irrelevant. The Give Act is to enshrine creation of President Obortion’s “Gestapo and SS Corps” - a nationalist communist league of goons to remove liberties and conservative advocates from the nation... it is anti Liberty and anti Freedom. This Corps will be on the other side of the front line when the counter coup begins.
“OBAMA WANTS FORCED LABOR FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127959/posts
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11/09/08
“OBAMA REQUIRES COMMUNITY SERVICE AND REMOVES HIS AGENDA FROM WEBSITE AFTER SCRUTINY”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2128883/posts
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11/11/08
“RAHM EMANUEL, Obama’s Chief of Staff, ON MANDATORY CIVIL SERVICE PLAN”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130387/posts
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11/12/08
“RAHM EMANUEL EXPECTS ‘A LOT’ FROM CIVIL DEFENSE CORPS [Ben Smith podcast]”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130604/posts
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“Obama’s “UNIVERSAL” SERVICE PLAN
Training A Socialist Army Of World Servers”
He is the devil...
Is there a place where we can get the specific parts that are the most offensive/ unconstitutional, etc. I want to call my congressman tomorrow and would like to steer them by paragraph numbers to the worst parts (the “mandatory volunteerism” part, forcing children & elderly to work, etc.) I just don’t have time to read through the entire thing again, although I’ve skimmed parts of it. Thanks for any help.
H.R.1388
Title: To reauthorize and reform the national service laws.
Sponsor: Rep McCarthy, Carolyn [NY-4] (introduced 3/9/2009) Cosponsors (25)
Latest Major Action: 3/11/2009 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 34 - 3.SUMMARY AS OF:
3/9/2009—Introduced.
Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act or the GIVE Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (NSCA) and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (DVSA) to revise the programs under such Acts and reauthorize appropriations for such programs through FY2014.
Revises under NSCA: (1) the School-Based and Community-Based Service-Learning programs and Higher Education Innovative Programs for Community Service (Learn and Serve programs); (2) National Service Trust programs (AmeriCorps); (3) the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC); and (4) the Investment for Quality and Innovation program.
Eliminates the current Community-Based Learn and Serve programs.
Establishes two new Learn and Serve programs: (1) Campuses of Service, which provides funds to institutions of higher education to develop or disseminate exemplary service-learning programs that assist their students’ pursuit of public service careers; and (2) Innovative Service-Learning Programs and Research, which funds community service-learning opportunities for elementary and secondary, college, and graduate students as well as research into service-learning.
Includes among eligible AmeriCorps programs: (1) an Education Corps to address unmet educational needs; (2) a Healthy Futures Corps to address unmet health needs; (3) a Clean Energy Corps to address unmet environmental needs; and (4) a Veterans Corps to address the unmet needs of veterans and their families.
Creates AmeriCorps Opportunity Corps programs that include certain existing programs and new programs to: (1) increase community access to technology; (2) engage citizens in public safety, health, and emergency preparedness services; (3) mentor youth; (4) reduce recidivism by re-engaging court-involved youth; and (5) support the needs of veterans or active duty service members and their families.
Establishes an Education Awards Only program authorizing the Corporation for National and Community Service (Corporation) to provide fixed-amount grants to programs that have approved national service positions, but no AmeriCorps funding.
Sets the National Service educational awards for full-time AmeriCorps, NCCC, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) participants at a level equal to the maximum available Pell Grant available to students under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
Includes among needs to be met under the NCCC program, disaster relief, infrastructure improvement, environmental and energy conservation, and urban and rural development.
Requires states to develop comprehensive plans for volunteer and paid service by Baby Boomers and older adults.
Directs the Corporation to plan pilot programs to: (1) better target and serve displaced workers; and (2) establish a centralized electronic citizenship verification system which would allow the Corporation to share employment eligibility information with the Department of Education.
Authorizes the Corporation to treat September 11th annually as a National Day of Service and Remembrance.
Establishes within the Investment for Quality and Innovation program: (1) a ServeAmerica Fellowships program providing fellowships to individuals chosen by states to participate in service projects addressing certain areas of national need; (2) a Silver Scholarship Grant Program providing scholarships to individuals age 55 or older who complete at least 500 hours of service in a year in an area of national need; and (3) an Encore Fellowships program providing one-year fellowships to individuals age 55 or older who serve in areas of national need and receive training to transition to public service employment. Makes ServeAmerica fellows eligible for national service educational awards.
Authorizes the Corporation to provide grants to innovative and model service programs, including those for disadvantaged youth, youth under age 17, and potential recidivists.
Eliminates federal funding for the Points of Light Foundation.
Revises under DVSA: (1) the VISTA program; and (2) the Senior Corps, including the Retired and Senior Volunteer program (RSVP), the Foster Grandparent program, and the Senior Companion program.
Gives priority in VISTA participant selection to disadvantaged youth and retired adults of any profession.
Authorizes new VISTA grant programs of national significance that provide poor and rural communities with: (1) services reintegrating formerly incarcerated individuals into society; (2) financial literacy and planning; (3) before-school and after-school services; (4) community economic development initiatives; (5) assistance to veterans and their families; and (6) health and wellness services. Eliminates the VISTA Literacy Corps, University Year for VISTA, and Literacy Challenge Grant programs.
Raises the minimum and maximum stipend provided to VISTA participants.
Prioritizes RSVP projects in specified areas.
Makes anyone 55 years of age or older eligible as Senior Corps volunteers.
Provides, under the Senior Corps demonstration program, incentive matching grants to Senior Corps programs that exceed specified performance measures, enroll most of their volunteers in outcome-based service programs, and increase their enrollment of Baby Boomer volunteers.
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the number of AmeriCorps, VISTA, and NCCC participants should reach 250,000 by 2014.
Congressional Commission on Civic Service Act - Establishes a Congressional Commission on Civic Service to provide recommendations to Congress on improving opportunities for individuals to volunteer or perform national service.
“His wife will probably hold the whip.”
She holds everything else so whats the big deal?
4 later
Thanks so much for all you’re doing, and to Nathan Bedford for the info also. Thankfully I have a conservative representative, I’m sure he’ll vote against this. We’ve got to get the word out, though!
BTW these “Tea parties” are really starting making the news - see the one in Cincinnatti made local news. Maybe some of FReepers attending could make some signs to hold up to publicize this horrible bill. I really think they want to sneak this thing through fast.
Get some rest!
Go figure
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Good to hear Mark Levin talked about it. I’ll catch the archive.
Keep on ‘em, Mark!
This Marxist bill is about as “voluntary” as paying income taxes.
Yes. Except that this time, we know.
But it doesn't do any good, because no one is listening to us.
The mandatory aspect is precisely why many people object to the regulation. Edwina L. Green, president of the Maryland Congress of Parents and Teachers, said it would be an imposition on working-class students who had jobs, on students involved in trying to get academic or sports scholarships to college, on students who were single parents, and on students who live in rural areas where there might be a scarcity of volunteer opportunities.
And the Maryland State Teachers Association calls the requirement unconstitutional, both as a forced imposition of values that violates the First Amendment and as involuntary servitude that violates the 13th Amendment.
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