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More on the GIVE Act

March 23, 2009 - by Donny Shaw

The GIVE Act, which Avelino wrote about here, is scheduled for an initial vote today in the Senate. Basically, the bill would expand funding for AmeriCorps and establish other volunteer corps to deal with specific areas, like clean energy, education and health. The bill has been getting a lot of attention on OpenCongress (almost all negative) and has been making the rounds in the blogs. It's currently the second most-viewed bill on OpenCongress and the most-blogged about bill on the web. A ...

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