2008-07-12T00:34:16Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/49516 2008-07-12T00:34:16Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-12:/comment/33650 Anonymous Peace Corps charges programs like PEPFAR and NGOs for PCVs. Wouldn't it be more fair to fund the NGOs and programs so they can hire their own volunteers? Peace Corps is a US government agency and has unique access to these US government programs, unlike NGOs, and charges the NGOs and programs for the volunteers. Why do we need Peace Corps? The NGOs need the money and can hire fine if they get the same access to funding that Peace Corps gets. NGOs need equal access to funding. 2008-07-12T13:44:44Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-12:/comment/33711 Anonymous How will the filibuster affect S.2731 since the budgets are together? 2008-08-09T22:44:56Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-08-09:/comment/37707 Rowland If we charge NGOs and PEPFAR for PCVEs we should pay what they are worth. That is $41,000 support level a year for a PCVE. The pay should equal that support level. The PCVEs can stay in site, but there is really no reason to stay poor. It justifies keeping the locals poor, neocolonialism. Peace Corps should really pay PCVEs a salary that reflects the job and not one that is below poverty to keep them poor. Keeping them poor to live with the poor makes no sense unless you don't consider them federal employees with the same pay as any federal employee. So, this bill is stalled and won't be passed this year. Does it really matter since there is a five year budget passed and if this doesn't pass, I guess that means it really never was needed and the new five year budgets are passed in other bills, not the traditional PC yearly budget? The new five year budget has already been passed and this budget is not needed(the filibuster was fake), which looks like the plan from the beginning. We need a new bill for PCVEs salaries to reflect the support level. 2008-05-14T00:15:33Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-14:/comment/14615 Anonymous Is this a five year budget or a one year budget reauthorization for five years or a five year budget authorized yearly or a one year reauthoration based on a five year budget or a five year budget reauthorization done yearly for the original five year and four years for the reauthorizing yearly or a once every five year budget reauthorization? 2008-04-21T13:01:31Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-21:/comment/8690 Anonymous Since the Peace Corps Budget has changed to a 'five year sustainable budget' like the emergency funding in organizations such as PEPFAR, a Peace Corps hiring and funding agency; it is time to give Peace Corps Volunteer employees the same rights as other Peace Corps employees. Peace Corps Volunteer employees should have the same five year option for service as Peace Corps employees. 2008-05-10T23:56:56Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-10:/comment/13965 Anonymous This five year budget doubles. If the budget doubles and the number of volunteers doesn't; what will Congress do, close them? It's become too dangerous for PCVs in countries like Fiji, where there UN and US sanctions. The PCVs need danger pay like the foreign service and salaries that reflect their training counter parts.