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January 4, 2008

Dodd opposed Peace Corps Safety and Security legislation

by @ 3:55 pm. Filed under war and peace

While I have yet to see any official announcement saying Chris Dodd is no longer a candidate for president, I don’t see his name on the list for the New Hampshire debate Saturday either.  I had sort of hoped that he would add his voice to those standing against the current erosion of freedom.

But some of have not forgotten his role in killing S.2454, the safety and security bill for Peace Corps volunteers, either. The bill passed the house, was introduced in the Senate by Republican Sen. DeWine and Democratic Sen. Durbin, but was killed in Dodd’s Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations committee.

Chris Dodd could have gotten that bill out onto the Senate floor for the vote it deserved.

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5 Responses to “Dodd opposed Peace Corps Safety and Security legislation”

  1. 402 Says:

    Congress already created the OSS at PC after Walter Porrier(sp) disappeared. The jobs and the money were already at Peace Corps and the ombudsman removed from the OSS.

  2. jclifford Says:

    Interesting comments. I don’t know enough about the Peace Corps issue myself to offer my thoughts, except to note that it would be extremely curious for Chris Dodd to act against the interests of the Peace Corps, given that he was a Peace Corps volunteer himself.

    Chris Dodd has indeed dropped out of the presidential campaign, but even if he had stayed in, he wouldn’t have qualified for the next set of debates - too low of a performance in Iowa.

  3. 402 Says:

    Dodd’s interest is more in the jobs provided for staff at PC than the PCVs. Dodd was also in the military. PC has become dangerous for PCVs because they stay in military coup countries, which technically they have no legal agreement to be. This has happened allot and the funding for military programs to those countries go up. The additional 10 million came from those programs because Dodd wanted to make a point. The point is that PC is competing for those funds and getting those funds. They should not be in the military coup countries to begin with and the reasoning is the jobs provided to the staff in those countries is important.

    Dodd also had an ambassador removed and replaced with an X PCV after a PC staff member was fired for violating a security procedure basic to PC. She was later hired at PC DC and classified, which is how staff gets promoted and has the Director waive the five year employment law. Dodd completely passed on the security issue and took care of everyone but the PCVs, who were threatened while all this happened. After the procedures were checked and put in place there were car bombings in London by Doctors.

    There are plenty of issues. Dodd is probably too willing to put PCVs in harms way to keep the funding and staff employees.

  4. Tunafish Says:

    ‘Military coup country’? Is this like former Soviet bloc or maybe more like Ethiopia? How do you “violate a security procedure”? This same person is the one who got rehired? The new security department is not under the 5 year rule–it’s now a two-tier system.

    Yes, Dodd defends the PC as an agency, not the volunteers.

  5. PRIVATE Says:

    about S.2454 BILL ABOUT SAFETY AND SECURITY OFFICE
    I THINK WHEN I READ THE BILL WHICH WAS NOT YET A LAWW BECAUSE NOT SIGNATED BY YOUR PRESIDENT
    PERHAPS IT IS RIGHT THAT THIS JOB IS A MILITARY JOB BUT PEACE CORPS A A PROGRAMM SOCIAL SO WHAT A MILITARY WILL DO THERE .

    I AM MALAGASY I AM JEWS JUDA AND JEWS LEVITE MONARCHIE AND I REMARK THAT DURING THEIR VISIT HERE AT ANTANANARIVO MANY PEACE CORPS MAN AND WOMAN SMOKE MANY DRUG MARRIRUANA AND GLACIER LIKER MANY RASTAMAN GIVE THEM THIS DRUG AND FUCK THEM AFTER THIS RASTA SAY TO ANOTHER FRIEND THAT THEY HAVE SEX MANY PEACE CORPS WOMAN AND MAN .
    SINCERELY I SAID THE PEACE CORPS WOMAN IS NOT A WISE PERSON INSTEAD TO LEARN SIDA THEY CREATE SIDA ? SO MANY SLAVE MALAGASY WAS MARRIED NOW AND GET MANY BABY WITH AMERICAN WOMAN .

    FRANKLY AS A GENERATION OF MONARCHY I SAID THAT DURING THIS PERIOD AT MADAGSCAR PEACE CORPS WAS A GOOD BUT WASTE TITIME
    AS A MONARCHY OF MADAGASCAR MY GENERATION WHO WAS IN CONTACT WITH MONARCHY AMERICA WAS AND THINK THAT AMERICA
    IS A SNOB MONARCHY PERSON LIKE WASHINGTON FEDERALISTE ROYAL PERSON AT VIRGINIE ROYAL

    MY GRAND GRAND FATHER WHO WAS KING AND QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR AT ANTANANARIVO PALACE WHEN I THINK THE PEACE CORPS NOWADAYS I THINK THAT SECURITY AND SAFETY MUST BE DONE INSIDE BRAIN OF PEACE CORPS AMERICA BECAUSE FOR ME ALL AMERICA WAS ALREADY MARRIED WITH MANY MAN SLAVE SO THEIR GENERATION WAS A SLAVE WHAT A PITY IN FRONT OF THOMAS JEFFERSON AND WASHINGTON ROYAL MONARCHIE VIRGINIE ROYAL IS LOST FOR AMERICA

    SO WHAT MEANS SECURITY AND SAFETY OFFICER IF PEACE CORPS IS ALREADY SAW AS A GENERATION OF WOMAN WHO WAS MARRIED WITH SLAVE MAN MALAGASY RASTA
    ME MONARCHIS OF MADAGASCAR I CAN NOT SAY NOTHING BUT WHEN I SEE ALL GOVTRACK US I THINK ALL BILL WAS UNUSED REALLY

    SORRY TO AMERICA BUT I AM AWAITING 25 YEARS TO SEE CHANGEMENT OF PEACE CORPS BUT ANY CHANGEMENT BECAUSE I AM NOW 44 YERAS OLD AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF AMERICA CITIZEN FOLLOW THERE BILL THERE ACT ANY
    ALL SMOKE MARIRUANA AT NIGHT AT GLACIER AND SEX WITH RASTA AND GET BABY WITH RASTA
    MANY MALAGASY WHEN THEY SEE AMERICAN PEACE CORPS MALAGASY THINK DIRECTLY THEREIS ANOTHER BABY OF MALAGASY SLAVE WHO WILL BE CREATED .

    SORRY BUT IT IS TRUE
    AGENERATION OF MONARCHIE OF MADAGASCAR JEWS JUDAS AND JEWS LEVITE AND GENERATION OF SULTAN OF ARABIA SAOUDITE
    ROYAL PERSON

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