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How the Senate voted on a national service bill [McCain votes yes]
AP ^ | 2009-03-26

Posted on 03/26/2009 4:17:10 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

The 79-19 roll call by which the Senate voted Thursday to triple the size of the AmeriCorps and broadly expand incentives for students and seniors to give back to their communities.

On this vote, a "yes" vote was a vote to pass the bill.

Voting "yes" were 55 Democrats and 22 Republicans and 2 independents.

Voting "no" were 0 Democrats and 19 Republicans.

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To: Ingtar

Lamar!

Get yer head out of your Clymer


41 posted on 03/26/2009 4:40:29 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Private First Class - 1/16/09 - Parris Island, SC)
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To: rabscuttle385

So now a large number of Republicans are drinking Obama’s Kool-Aid... How can they walk lock-step in his efforts to build his Brownshirts?

As if college already doesn’t have enough money-wasting, time wasting programs they force students to go through to “earn” a degree... now the federal government will now mandate that said students perform hundreds of hours of “volunteer” service/community organizing/public service to get a degree.

Socialism is firmly in control. Turn out the lights, turn in your guns. It’s over.


42 posted on 03/26/2009 4:41:59 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: rabscuttle385

Sphincter did it again! I’m surprized McPAIN didn’t pick Sphincter as his Vice Presidential Running Mate!! altough We kn ow he wanted Lieberman thinking that would guarantee his LOSS and resultant Bonus from SOROS and The Drive-bys!


43 posted on 03/26/2009 4:43:30 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (GOD BLESS AMERICA and Our Great President George W. Bush)
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To: Wisconsinlady
I'm glad you mentioned "involuntary servitude". Here is the full text of the 13th Amendment:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

There is only ONE instance in which it is legal for involuntary servitude to exist w/in the US, & it is spelled out right here (punishment for a crime). What crimes have these young people committed?

Shouldn't this also include the prohibition of a military draft, which I believe is a form of involuntary servitude?

44 posted on 03/26/2009 4:43:39 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: MHGinTN

Go to Washington and you will be paid off. Money is buying all these so called Republicans by the Dem’s and they have lost their values. Money is the root of all evil.


45 posted on 03/26/2009 4:44:36 PM PDT by In God I trust
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To: rabscuttle385

Burr (NC) voted YEA ????

The same day it posts he starts a re-election drive..??

WHAT !! ??

LOSER..


46 posted on 03/26/2009 4:46:07 PM PDT by Eagle50AE (Pray for our Armed Forces.)
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To: In God I trust

Correction. Money CAN be the root of all evil.


47 posted on 03/26/2009 4:46:32 PM PDT by In God I trust
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To: jackv

I’m not surprised that Souder voted “yes”...from what I’ve seen of him, he’s a supporter of the big Security / Prison State. He’s a Drug Warrior on steroids, too.


48 posted on 03/26/2009 4:47:31 PM PDT by ChrisInAR (The Tenth Amendment is still the Supreme Law of the Land, folks -- start enforcing it for a CHANGE!)
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To: rabscuttle385

You think my email to my Senator might be a bit harsh?

Well, I must say that I am not surprised that you have chosen to get behind yet another mass indoctrination program of the socialist agenda.

Your vote today to mandate that any college or university that receives any sort of Federal funds (think financial aid) must require hundreds of hours of “volunteer service” from their students for them to receive their degree is absolutely insane.

Exactly what part of “volunteer” includes being mandated to do something?

I suppose the next step will be the Federal Government mandating what counts as Volunteer hours. I am sure such hours will be required to be in Leftist-Socialist approved venues.


49 posted on 03/26/2009 4:48:54 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: luv2ndamend
SEC. 6104 This bill that that just passed Senate seems to end with Sec. 5102. Does anyone know how we can search for specific keywords within a bill?
50 posted on 03/26/2009 4:50:22 PM PDT by justsaynomore
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To: In God I trust

The lust for money is the root of all evil.


51 posted on 03/26/2009 4:50:47 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Idiots!!!!!!


52 posted on 03/26/2009 4:51:50 PM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: ChrisInAR
What crimes have these young people committed?

Why their crime would be not serving in the Obama Youth Corps, of course.
53 posted on 03/26/2009 4:52:01 PM PDT by Lord Basil
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To: rabscuttle385
I made a point of reading what McCain had written about his "commitment to public service" before the election.

Putting the "National" in National Service, by Senator John McCain.(^)

William F Buckley was in favor of mandatory public service (The Philosophic Postmortem of William F. Buckley, Jr.(^), The Rule of Reason). McCain references Buckley, saying "Buckley was right, but it's fair to say that it took a while before we conservatives accustomed ourselves to the idea."

There wasn't a nickel's worth of difference between what Obama wants and what McCain wanted. If anything, McCain's ideas are more radical.

54 posted on 03/26/2009 4:53:41 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney: Collect the whole set!)
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To: rabscuttle385
what happened to the proposed mandatory youth corps? I did email my senators today to oppose anything mandatory, thinking it was coming up today, perhaps as part of this??
55 posted on 03/26/2009 4:54:27 PM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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To: GOP Poet

The whole program is a cover to indoctranate people in to the truth of socialism.

There will be camps all over america for them to go to be re-educated. Those who refuse to go or cause problems in the camps will just vanish.

Ayers said upwards of 30,000,000 Americas will need to be eliminated in order for the takeover to work.

We now know by this vote we are in this alone, no one in congress stands for feeedom.


56 posted on 03/26/2009 4:55:06 PM PDT by stockpirate (A people unwilling to use extreme violence to preserve liberty deserves the tyrant that rules them)
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To: little jeremiah
I forgot to mark the thread, but today a new bill cleared the house that would make criminals out of folks for growing their own food. I'll See if I can find it and ping you.
57 posted on 03/26/2009 4:55:50 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: ChrisInAR

Where was the appropriate legislation?

Just because Congress wants to follow the Chosen One like he is the Pied Piper?

I hate them.


58 posted on 03/26/2009 4:57:12 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady
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To: In God I trust

“Money CAN be the root of all evil.”

... For the ‘LOVE’ of money is the root of all evil.

STE=Q


59 posted on 03/26/2009 4:58:16 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: brushcop

Just called her Austin office and gave her a ration of shit over it.

Damn.


60 posted on 03/26/2009 5:00:01 PM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Facism - Nobama - No Way!)
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