[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 62 (Wednesday, April 10, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H3223-H3224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE CONCERNS

  (Ms. McCOLLUM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, Democrats and Republicans support the 
Corporation for National and Community Service and all of its volunteer 
organizations like AmeriCorps, VISTA, and Senior Corps. President 
Trump's 2020 budget eliminates the Corporation and all the volunteer 
activities our communities rely on.
  As we speak, the Corporation's CEO is executing a plan to close all 
46 State offices in the next 90 days, which they are calling the 
Sustainability and Transformation Plan. Contrary to its name, this plan 
is a step towards accomplishing the administration's ultimate goal of 
eliminating national service and abandoning local volunteers and 
stakeholders.
  Last month, the Corporation's own inspector general reported to 
Congress:

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``Aspects of this plan present heightened risks of fraud, waste, and 
mismanagement that warrant particularly close oversight.''
  So now it is time for Congress to act to protect national service, 
not fund a plan that promotes fraud, waste, and abuse. I urge my 
colleagues to cosponsor H.R. 1458, the Keep Community Service Local 
Act, which prohibits the closing of State offices.

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