Joe Cunningham: “But I want to tell the gentlewoman, I never said AmeriCorps volunteers got $30,000. As a matter of fact, I said they do…”

“But I want to tell the gentlewoman, I never said AmeriCorps volunteers got $30,000. As a matter of fact, I said they do not individually get that amount. But my colleagues, we want to increase AmeriCorps $100 million. Look at the money we have already put in AmeriCorps last year, I think $260 million. If we look at this, to me a volunteer at a church, they get coffee and doughnuts. If we take all of the hundreds of millions of dollars that we put into AmeriCorps each year and want to put another $100 million in this year, if you take 50,000 workers into that, that is over $30,000 per person cost. Now, a lot of that goes into administration. But when we define volunteer, let us make sure that volunteer is volunteer, not paid worker. That was my point.”