March 17, 2000

Lawmakers in House Seem Unlikely to Raise AmeriCorps Budget

By SARA HEBEL

Lawmakers on a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee told AmeriCorps officials at a hearing last month that they were not likely to meet President Clinton's full request for the 2001 fiscal year to increase spending on the national-service program.

But members of the panel -- which drafts the bulk of the AmeriCorps budget -- acknowledged improvements in long-standing financial-management weaknesses at the Corporation for National Service, which

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