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WASHINGTON -- Another federal program important to colleges is due for potentially painful scrutiny from Congressional Republicans. Representative Virginia Foxx, the North Carolinian who heads the House of Representatives higher education subcommittee, announced Tuesday that the panel would hold a hearing tomorrow to look into what its title calls "flawed monitoring of national service programs" by the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps and other programs. Foxx said the hearing was prompted by news reports -- trumpeted in the conservative press -- that the agency had pulled two AmeriCorps workers from a New York City program after determining that they may have engaged in inappropriate lobbying while working for Planned Parenthood.
