July 17, 2003 - Reuters: Peace Corps to get $49M less than requested in Senate bill

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Peace Corps to get $49M less than requested in Senate bill





Read and comment on this story from Reuters that the Senate Appropriations Committee cleared an $18.1 billion foreign aid bill on July 17 in which Peace Corps would get $310 million, $49 million below Bush's request. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the top Democrat on the foreign operations subcommittee, said he will press for more AIDS funding when the bill reaches the floor.

On July 15, Senator Norm Coleman, chair of the Senate Subcommittee that oversees the Peace Corps, urged his colleagues to approve President Bush's request for $359 million request for next year. Coleman made a public pitch in a speech at the Peace Corps headquarters. Read the story at:


Senate Panel Clears $18 Billion in Foreign Aid*

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Senate Panel Clears $18 Billion in Foreign Aid

Thu July 17, 2003 03:20 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday cleared an $18.1 billion foreign aid bill that meets President Bush's plan to launch a global AIDS initiative, but Democrats said they would press for more AIDS money.

The Senate committee's foreign aid bill has $1.4 billion to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic next fiscal year starting on Oct. 1, with more money for the five-year, $15 billion program to come from a labor, health and education spending bill that the committee has not yet considered.

AIDS activists have blasted Bush and the Republican-led Congress for first passing legislation to create the program that called for spending $3 billion on global AIDS next year, then just offering $2 billion in actual funding.

The House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed its version of the foreign aid bill that also had $1.4 billion for global AIDS. The House-passed labor, health and education spending bill has another $644 million.

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the top Democrat on the foreign operations subcommittee, said he will press for more AIDS funding when the bill reaches the floor.

The Senate last week passed a nonbinding measure 78-18 that endorsed the full $3 billion for next year.

The Senate committee's foreign aid bill is $800 million below Bush's request, but $1 billion above the House committee's version.

It provides $1 billion for the Millennium Challenge Account, Bush's flagship foreign aid program intended to encourage poor countries to make reforms in exchange for assistance programs tailored to their needs.

That is $300 million less than Bush wanted, but above the $800 million in the House committee's bill.

The Senate bill has $697 million for the Andean counter drug initiative, up slightly from current levels, but $34 million below Bush's request.

The Peace Corps would get $310 million, up $15 million from current levels but $49 million below Bush's request.

It matches Bush's request for $575 million in economic assistance to Egypt, $480 million for Israel and $250 million for Jordan.




July 15, 2003 - Senator Coleman pushes for Peace Corps funding increase





Read and comment on this story from the Kansas City Star on July 15, 2003 that Senator Norm Coleman, chair of the Senate Subcommittee that overseas the Peace Corps, is urging his colleagues to approve President Bush's request for $359 million request for next year. Coleman said he would make a public pitch Tuesday in a speech at the Peace Corps headquarters. RPCVs need to read the next story and call their Senators and Representatives to support this appropriation. Thanks to Senator Coleman for leading the fight. Read the story at:

Coleman pushes for Peace Corps funding increase*

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Coleman pushes for Peace Corps funding increase

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Sen. Norm Coleman urged his colleagues to approve President Bush's request for increased funding for the Peace Corps.

In a recent letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on foreign operations, Coleman said he supported Bush's $359 million request for next year, a 13 percent increase.

Coleman, R-Minn., said he would make a public pitch Tuesday in a speech at the Peace Corps headquarters. He chairs the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Narcotic Affairs.

"According to many U.S. diplomats and host country officials, the Peace Corps is the most effective and cost efficient U.S. agency working at the local, grassroots development level," Coleman wrote in the letter to McConnell, R-Ky.

Bush has said he wants to double the number of volunteers in the Peace Corps over the next five years, to 14,000.



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