I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1671 
To establish the United States Public Service Academy. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 23, 2007 
Mr. MORAN of Virginia (for himself, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. GONZALEZ, Ms. MATSUI, 
Mr. ORTIZ, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. HINOJOSA, Ms. NORTON, Mr. AL GREEN 
of Texas, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. MCDERMOTT, 
Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, 
Mr. FARR, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. 
LAMPSON, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, and Mr. LEWIS of Georgia) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor 
A BILL 
To establish the United States Public Service Academy. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Public Service Acad-
emy Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) National disasters such as the terrorist at-
tacks on September 11, 2001, and Hurricane 
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Katrina, along with the United States’ struggle 
against international terrorism, have highlighted the 
importance of public service and the need for the 
United States to improve its capacity to effectively 
handle future catastrophes, as well as the daily chal-
lenges of life in a global society. 
(2) Young people in the United States, particu-
larly after the attacks on September 11, 2001, have 
a strong ethic of public service. According to the 
Higher Education Research Institute, more than 2⁄3 
of the 2005 freshman class at institutions of higher 
education in the United States expressed a desire to 
serve others, the highest rate in a generation. Appli-
cations to private programs such as Teach for Amer-
ica and City Year, publicly funded public service 
programs within USA Freedom Corps, and religious 
mission trips have increased dramatically since 
2001. Yet with the increase in college tuition caus-
ing the average college graduate to owe about 
$20,000 in student loan debt, many students can af-
ford to pursue public service only for short periods 
of time, and avoid public service careers in favor of 
more lucrative fields. 
(3) The aging of the population of the United 
States and the subsequent retirement of the Baby 
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Boomer generation will create serious shortages in 
critically needed public service positions at all levels 
of our society, as evidenced by the following: 
(A) A recent study by the Congressional 
Budget Office highlighted ‘‘the graying of the 
Federal work force,’’ while the Partnership for 
Public Service warned of a ‘‘Federal brain 
drain’’ as 44 percent of all Federal workers be-
come eligible to retire in the next 5 years. 
(B) The National Center for Education 
Statistics estimates that more than 2,000,000 
teachers will be needed in the next 10 years due 
to teacher retirement and increased student en-
rollment. The teacher shortages will particularly 
affect high-need rural and inner-city local edu-
cational agencies. 
(C) More than 80 percent of the Nation’s 
17,000 law enforcement agencies report that 
they cannot fill needed positions due to a lack 
of qualified candidates. 
(D) In the aftermath of Hurricane 
Katrina, personnel shortages were ‘‘perhaps 
[the] most difficult challenge’’ for the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, according to a 
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Congressional report on the Federal Govern-
ment’s response to the disaster. 
(E) The Bureau of Customs and Border 
Protection has struggled to recruit and retain 
college-educated Border Patrol agents who can 
speak Spanish and navigate the delicate cross- 
cultural interactions inherent in the job. 
(4) There is a large pool of untapped potential 
among young women who want to serve our country. 
Although the military service academies are only 15 
percent female, women constitute a majority (57 
percent) of college students nationwide. In service 
organizations, women are an even larger majority: 
58 percent of Peace Corps, 61 percent of City Year, 
and 71 percent of Teach for America participants 
are women. 
(5) College students in the United States lack 
adequate preparation in fields crucial to public serv-
ice, including international education and civic edu-
cation, as evidenced by the following: 
(A) According to the bipartisan Commis-
sion on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad 
Fellowship Program established under section 
104 of division H of the Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2004 (Public Law 108–199; 118 
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