Jerry Moran: “Mr. Speaker, it is amazing that there have only been 140,000 volunteers over the last 35 years, when you consider the…”

“Mr. Speaker, it is amazing that there have only been 140,000 volunteers over the last 35 years, when you consider the profound impact that the Peace Corps has had in the lives of individuals and in fact in the progress of nations around the world. But the impact has also been felt in terms of the volunteers. We just heard from one. There are several others in this body. The fact is that the leaders in government and in industry in America today in many ways share that common experience of having been Peace Corps volunteers. I hope that will continue to be the case, because not only do we share our national know-how and goodwill, but we benefit a great deal with that broadened experience. I just want to say that we in the minority, as well as the gentleman from New York, Chairman Gilman, expressed for the majority, applaud President Clinton's selection of Mark Gearan to be Director of the Peace Corps. We could not have had a better choice. We appreciate the fact that again we have a broad bipartisan support for this resolution.”