[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 40 (Monday, March 10, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S1787]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PEACE CORPS
Mr. REID. Mr. President, I had the good fortune to meet earlier today
with the head of the Peace Corps. His name is Ron Tschetter--a
wonderful man who was approved overwhelmingly not that long ago by the
full Senate.
The Peace Corps is one of the programs that is so good for this
country and the world. We have a little over 8,000 Peace Corps
volunteers. We should have twice as many. The President said a couple
years ago he was going to double the Peace Corps from 7,000 to 14,000.
That has not happened. He has increased it by a few hundred, and that
is very, very important. From Nevada, we have 22 Peace Corps volunteers
out of the 8,000. They are from all over the world.
As I have had the good fortune of being able to travel as a
representative of our country around the world over the last several
decades, every place I go, I visit with Peace Corps volunteers because
there is no group of individuals that does more for our country in
setting good, high-quality standards than the Peace Corps volunteers.
They do great work, and I am very proud of them.
These Peace Corps volunteers, when they are interviewed, are not
Democrats or Republicans, they are Americans, and they do great public
service. They are true public servants, and I am very proud of the work
they have done and will continue to do throughout the world on behalf
of America.
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