[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 18 (Wednesday, February 27, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S1244]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         THE LATIN AMERICA TRIP

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I wanted to commend our colleague from 
Pennsylvania who took a trip to Latin America. He talked about it and I 
commend him for doing that. A lot of attention is being focused--
rightfully so--on Southwest Asia because of events since 9-11. I think 
it is refreshing that a couple of colleagues took the time to visit 
this hemisphere and the countries they did and to bring back to the 
U.S. Senate their own observations about events in Cuba, Chile, 
Uruguay, and Brazil.
  I commend our colleague from Pennsylvania. I believe our colleague 
from Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee, was along on that trip, and others 
may have been there also. I thank him for reporting to us on their 
observations.

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