• December 10, 2003 - Washington Post: No Final Senate Action on Omnibus Spending Bill that includes funding for Peace Corps  Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 12:16 pm [1]

• December 10, 2003 - Washington Post: House Passes Huge Year-End Spending Bill that includes funding for Peace Corps  Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 12:16 pm [1]

• December 6, 2003 - Thomas: Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill with Peace Corps Funding is now part of Omnibus Bill  Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 5:05 pm [3]

• December 7, 2003 - New York Times: Rise in Foreign Aid Is Mostly to Fight AIDS in Africa  Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 7:48 am [1]

• December 6, 2003 - Washington Post: Spending Bill Vote Is Unlikely This Month  Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 7:48 am [1]

• November 19, 2003 - House Committee on Appropriations: Budget Victory for Peace Corps Monday, November 24, 2003 - 6:17 pm [5]

• November 10, 2003 - Washington Post: Where the Appropriations Bills stand now  Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 11:56 am [4]

• November 10, 2003 - PCOL: Our Letter to Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski  Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 12:04 pm [2]

• Archive of Previous Stories Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 7:20 am [5]

RPCVs make one last Push for Full Peace Corps Funding (rev 2)



RPCVs make one last Push for Full Peace Corps Funding (rev 2)

RPCVs make one last Push for Full Peace Corps Funding

Versions of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bills that contain the Peace Corps appropriation for FY2004 have passed both the Senate and the House and are now in conference. The funding for Peace Corps that has been approved in both versions is $40 Million short of the $359M that President Bush has requested to support Peace Corps expansion.

Listed below are members of the conference committee that will meet to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill and prepare a conference report. After a conference report is agreed upon, both the full House and the full Senate will vote to approve the conference report. After passage of the final version by both chambers, the foreign operations bill will go to the President to be signed into law.

If one of these members is your Senator or Representative, please call them, tell him/her who you are and your address (they only listen to constituents), tell them that you are a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and ask them to support President Bush's full request for $359M for the Peace Corps for FY 2004.

Here's how to contact your Senators and Representative.