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4/29/2008 |
President Bush Discusses National Volunteer Week |
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The White House hosted a cebration of National Volunteer Week on
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, in the East Room. President Bush delivered
remarks to invited guests including, 33 Peace Corps Trainees, 64 Peace
Corps Country Directors, and approximately 100 volunteers from
organizations such as Camp Fire USA, Jumpstart, N Street Village,
AmeriCorps NCCC, AmeriCorps Vista, Hope Worldwide, Orange County Rescue
Mission, and Partners of the Americas. |
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4/2/2008 |
CEO Technology Update and Scheduled Systems Outages |
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I am writing today to notify you of a planned system outage for
April 3 and remind you of the upcoming power outage scheduled for April
11 – 14. |
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3/27/2008 |
CEO Technology Update and Scheduled Systems Outages |
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I want to alert you to two scheduled systems outages, and update you
on the status of the My AmeriCorps Portal fixes implemented. |
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3/21/2008 |
CEO Technology Update |
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I am writing today to provide a technology update and to once again
thank you for your continued patience. I continue to receive daily, and
in some cases hourly, updates on potential solutions to these
challenges, as well as how these ongoing issues are impacting the work
you do. We are working to mitigate the problems you are facing,
identifying work-arounds where possible and providing information where
no interim fix is available. Still, I know this process continues to be
difficult. |
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3/12/2008 |
CEO Message on the Status of the GIVE Act |
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This afternoon, unfortunately, the House of Representatives did not
pass the GIVE Act, the reauthorization package for the Corporation, when
it came to a vote. Because the bill was brought up under the
"suspension calendar," passage required two-thirds of the votes and it
fell short – with 277 voting in favor, 140 against. Had one "No" vote
been a "Yes" instead, the bill would have passed. It’s useful to keep in
mind that this is really a very strong margin of support, even though
it did not muster the super-majority required. |
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3/6/2008 |
CEO Statement on House Consideration of H.R. 2857 |
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Late this afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives came very
close to completing its consideration of the GIVE Act, the first
reauthorization package ever to come to the House floor. Immediately
before final approval, the bill snagged on a motion to recommit and the
leadership moved to other issues. We are optimistic the House will
complete its work on the bill shortly. |
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3/4/2008 |
Statement of Administration Policy on H.R. 2857 |
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The Administration supports House passage of H.R. 2857, which would
reauthorize the national service programs administered by the
Corporation for National and Community Service. The Administration
appreciates that the bill includes provisions consistent with the
President’s principles for reauthorization to make these programs more
effective and efficient, responsive to State and local needs, and
performance-oriented. In particular, H.R. 2857 would amend the national
service laws to introduce competition to the RSVP program and
incorporate requested technical amendments to reduce unnecessary
administrative burdens on States. |
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3/4/2008 |
House to Act on Reauthorization |
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This week the full House of Representative is expected to consider
H.R. 2857, which would reauthorize the Corporation for National and
Community Service and its programs. |
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2/22/2008 |
CEO Technology Update |
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I am writing to give you an update on our technology systems and
some related issues. After more than a week of all systems being up and
stable, the President’s Day weekend saw our systems down for unrelated
reasons, as Corporation headquarters offices experienced a power outage
due to the failure of a transformer supplying power to our building. The
building restored power on Tuesday afternoon and all network services
-- including My AmeriCorps Portal, Recruitment System and eGrants --
were back up and stabilized within hours. |
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2/12/2008 |
CEO Technology Update |
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Thank you for your continued patience and flexibility in the face of
significant shortcomings of the Corporation’s technology systems.
Please accept my apology for the inconvenience and frustration you’ve
had to endure. |
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