Archive for March, 2009
These days the fate of national service seems tied more than ever to the greater economic struggles our nation is facing. Citizens want to serve in their communities, and this week the Senate is debating legislation that would make it possible for more people to serve than ever before[ READ MORE ]
In order to end filibuster, 60 Senators were needed to vote "cloture." According to Alan Khazei of Be The Change, Inc., and Service Nation, 74 Senators voted cloture, "an extremely strong bi-partisan vote, with 22 Republicans joining 50 Democrats and 2 Independents voting in favor." To find out if your Senators voted to allow the Serve America bill to proceed, check out this list of "Yea" voters[ READ MORE ]
The New Service welcomes blogger Katrina Mathis. This is her introduction. I decided to join the Peace Corps in the 10th grade during a brief Civics class discussion about volunteers in Africa. Years later, during my senior year in college, I threw caution to the wind and finally dropped that “no postage necessary if mailed in the U.S.” tear card in the mail box, requesting an application from Peace Corps. A month or two or three later—I honestly can’t remember—I received my Peace Corps application and began a life changing journey[ READ MORE ]
The Serve America Act — that will expand national service by leaps and bounds — will finally arrive for debate on the Senate floor Monday, March 23. The office of Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) — who is managing the bill — says that the Serve America Act will go to the full Senate Monday likely at 3 p.m. EST. Debate could last days. [ READ MORE ]
Update, April 21, 2009: President Obama signs the Serve America Act into law. To take effect October 1, 2009. The Senate’s companion bill to the GIVE Act (which passed on the floor of the House yesterday) successfully moved out of committee yesterday and will likely be voted on by the entire Senate membership next week. [ READ MORE ]
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