While there's not a lot of agreement in Congress concerning President Obama's plans for the budets, a bipartisan group of lawmakers came up with a compromise. In April, 2009 this group of lawmakers encouraged Obama to increase budgets for community service funds. This is said to be "one of the most sweeping overhauls of the country's national service programs since the 1960's." The bill that was passed by the House has dramatically increased the size of Americorps, the government's largest volunteer organization(equivalent of the Peace Corps.)This $5.7 billion legislation has tripled the size of the service program that was originally proposed by President John F. Kennedy. It has increased the number of volunteer opportunities each year from 75,000 to 250,00.
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