March 29, 2004 - NPCA Advocacy Newsletter: Ask your Senator to support the Full Peace Corps Appropriation for FY2005

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By Admin1 (admin) (151.196.183.79) on Monday, March 29, 2004 - 11:27 am: Edit Post

Ask your Senator to support the Full Peace Corps Appropriation for FY2005

Ask your Senator to support the Full Peace Corps Appropriation for FY2005



Read and comment on this story from the NPCA Advocacy Listserv and call or write your Senator and ask him or her to support the full appropriation of $401 Million for the Peace Corps for FY 2005 at:

Ask your Senator to support the Full Peace Corps Appropriation for FY2005*

* This link was active on the date it was posted. PCOL is not responsible for broken links which may have changed.



Ask your Senator to support the Full Peace Corps Appropriation for FY2005

Congress is in the process of reviewing President Bush's budget request for Fiscal Year 2005, which will begin October 1, 2004. The President has requested $401 million for the Peace Corps. Peace Corps funding is part of a $35.1 billion dollar foreign affairs budget submitted by the President.

The full Senate has approved a budget resolution which slightly increases the foreign affairs request (increased to $35.4 billion). The next stop is the Senate Appropriations Committee, which is charged with assigning specific dollar figures to specific line items.

Despite good news from the Senate so far, full funding of the President's Peace Corps request remains very far from certain. The end of the newsletter provides a link to our new action alert urging members of the Senate Appropriations Committee to support full funding for the Peace Corps budget.

While various congressional committees hold important votes to set budget targets and authorize funding levels for various federal programs, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees get down to the business of looking at specific programs (such as Peace Corps) and approving line-item dollar figures for the next fiscal year budget.

If you have a Senator from your state who is on the following list and is a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, then call or write your Senator and ask him or her to support the full $401 Million Apropriation for the Peace Corps that is in the Foreign Appropriations Bill for FY 2005.

TED STEVENS, Alaska, Chairman

THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi

ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania

PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico

CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, Missouri

MITCH MCCONNELL, Kentucky

CONRAD BURNS, Montana

RICHARD C. SHELBY, Alabama

JUDD GREGG, New Hampshire

ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah

BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL, Colorado

LARRY CRAIG, Idaho

KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas

MIKE DEWINE, Ohio

SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia, Ranking Member

DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii

ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, South Carolina

PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont

TOM HARKIN, Iowa

BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, Maryland

HARRY REID, Nevada

HERB KOHL, Wisconsin

PATTY MURRAY, Washington

BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota

DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California

RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois

TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota

MARY L. LANDRIEU, Louisiana

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By Darlene Foote (138.88.74.157) on Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 11:32 am: Edit Post

Do we assume that doubling the size of Peace Corps is a good thing? Given Peace Corps' history of inconsistent programming, job development and placement for PCVs all over the world, perhaps we should consider first how we could improve the quality and consistency of the program.

And I don't necessarily mean by setting global norms in Washington--obviously the country situations are different. Where does the organization need to look so that Volunteers get the support they need when they need it?

When things go wrong, blame is often put squarely on the staff at post. I know there are some great staff people, incl RPCVs, out there. Nevertheless, perhaps an evaluation/analysis of volunteer support mechanisms, including the approach to staffing at posts, should be considered before we squander our energy on a push for more money to double Volunteer numbers.


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