Senate Passes National Service Bill 3/26/2009

3/26/2009 Michelle Obama: Barack will require you to work.. Editors note: In a statement after passage in the Senate, Obama said our work is not finished when I sign this bill into law — it has just begun. It will now only be a matter of time before Obamas civilian national security force powerful as the U.S. military takes to the streets.

See Obama Calls For National Civilian Stasi and Obamas Civilian National Security Force.

The Senate on Thursday approved a major national service bill that triples the AmeriCorps program, despite concerns from some conservatives that it could allow politically charged groups to benefit from extra funding.

The Senate voted 78-20 to increase AmeriCorps to 250,000 from its current 75,000 positions. The legislation is expected to cost $6 billion over five years.

The House could take up the bill as early as Monday, sending it then to President Obama for his signature.

The package, called the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, or GIVE Act, encourages a broad range of Americans to give back to their communities. It would create five groups to help poor people, improve education, encourage energy efficiency, strengthen access to health care and assist veterans.

UPDATE:

Between being first officially reported to the House and being voted on by the full House, bill managers stripped one whole section of the measure that created a Congressional Commission on Civil Service, thus removing the section that contained the language cited above concerning a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people and a possible requirement for all individuals in the United States to perform such service. The section could be restored during the Senate-House conference committee meeting. A new, separate bill containing that language has since been introduced in the House.