Read and comment on this story from the the US Senate on the status of Senator Dodd's Peace Corps bill. Senator Sarbanes (shown above) has just signed on as a co-sponsor and we have been informed by a member of the Staff on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the bill may come up for consideration tonight. Read the story at:
* This link was active on the date it was posted. PCOL is not responsible for broken links which may have changed.
Senator Dodd's Peace Corps Bill may pass tonight
We just got off the phone with Greg Aftandilian, the Senate Staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for Senator Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, and he has informed us that Senator Dodd's Peace Corps Bill (S 2667) may be coming up for consideration in the Senate this afternoon or evening.
Senator Sarbanes (shown in the picture above) has been a strong supporter of the Peace Corps and has added himself to the list of Senators co-sponsoring the Bill.
There is no news at this point on how the bill is faring in the House of Representaties where it goes under HR 4979.
We will be posting news about the passage of this bill to the web site as soon as we know anything more.
Click on a link below for more stories on PCOL
Some postings on Peace Corps Online are provided to the individual members of this group without permission of the copyright owner for the non-profit purposes of criticism, comment, education, scholarship, and research under the "Fair Use" provisions of U.S. Government copyright laws and they may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner. Peace Corps Online does not vouch for the accuracy of the content of the postings, which is the sole responsibility of the copyright holder.
This story has been posted in the following forums: : Headlines; Peace Corps - Congressional
