[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Pages 3571-3572]
[From the U.S. 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.

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  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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