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REAUTHORIZATION FAILS!
March 12, 2008 |
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Senior Corps Project
Directors and Friends of
Senior Corps,
In
a stunning reversal of
yesterday's actions, the
House failed to pass the GIVE
Act. As we explained
yesterday, the GIVE bill was
considered under a
complicated procedure called
suspension.
That meant that the
bill had to pass the House
by a two thirds majority,
not just a simple majority.
After 40 minutes of
debate, the House called for
a voice vote of yes or no on
the bill.
After the voice vote,
the speaker said that two
thirds of the members said
yea, so the yeas had it.
However, Congressman
Miller, Chair of the
Education and Labor
Committee who wrote the bill
and was the sponsor, said he
wanted a recorded vote.
The House voted on the bill
today and failed to pass it
when 140 members,
Republicans, voted no.
The
National Senior
Corps Association
worked closely with
the majority and the
minority of the
Education and Labor
Committee as they
crafted the GIVE
ACT. We were
very pleased when
this bipartisan bill
passed out of the
Committee by a vote
of 44 to 0. As
NSCA members reached
out to their members
of Congress, we
learned that this
bill had great
bipartisan support.
We are stunned
and extremely
disappointed that
the improvement
to national service
laws through the
GIVE Act did not
pass. Upon
finding out the
outcome of the vote,
NSCA immediately
contacted majority
and minority members
of the committee to
begin discussion on
next steps.
NSCA, as always,
will continue to
keep you informed.
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| The
NSCA Board of Directors
Fred
Lugo, President, Texas
(RSVP); Camellia
Pisegna,
Vice-President, Michigan
(SCP/FGP);Jody
Steinhardt,
Secretary, New
York (SCP); Normalyn
Powers, Treasurer, Massachusettes
(RSVP); Dwight
Rasmussen,
Immediate Past-President, Utah
(FGP/SCP); Katy
Allen, New
York (FGP/SCP); Suzette
Boydston, Oregon
(SCP); Cheryl
Christmas, Washington
D.C. (FGP); Sue
Conner, New
Hampshire (At Large); Ann
Hammond, California
(RSVP); Nancy Hess, New
Jersey (RSVP); Jackie
Johnson, Minnesota
(FGP); Angela
Kocher, West
Virginia (RSVP); Janice
Laws, Oklahoma (FGP);
Anne Marie Mann,
Ohio
(RSVP/FGP/SCP); Jolene
Niernberger, Kansas
(FGP/SCP); Jose
Perez, Texas
(SCP);
John Pribyl,
Minnesota
(FGP/SCP); Dolores
Schwertner, Texas
(RSVP); Sherry
Shively, Arkansas
(SCP); Diana
Slais, California
(FGP/SCP)
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NSCA
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Fred
Lugo
President, National Senior Corps
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