House Won't Give Extra AmeriCorps Funds

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House Won't Give Extra AmeriCorps Funds
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Filed at 9:53 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Appropriations Committee refused Monday to provide AmeriCorps with an extra $100 million it says it needs to keep its volunteer corps intact, but the financially troubled agency may eventually get much or all of the money anyway.

By a near party-line, 34-24 vote, the Republican-led committee rejected an amendment by Rep. David Price, D-N.C., that would have provided the added funds. Price was trying to add the money to a measure providing an extra $2 billion this year for coping with natural disasters, dousing wildfires and other programs.

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