the peace corps expects its volunteers to integrate into local life. but the over-50s bring not just professional experience but life experience, in other words, they don't sweat the small stuff. >> it's a little dark in here. but welcome. >> reporter: she now makes do with just occasional electricity and only cold-running water. a simpler life. >> i just find that i get to slow down and really reflect on what i'm doing, why i'm doing it. >> reporter: so the peace corps is looking for more mature volunteers. >> i'm no youngster. >> reporter: 150 came to this california recruiting session. many had heard jfk's call, too. >> now was the time to take that dream from age 17 and bring it to fruition at the age of 60. >> reporter: after serving in africa and romania, karen is an unpaid ambassador, talking to peace corps prospects. >> i'm about to be an empty-nester. this is really a wonderful opportunity. i can still do something to contribute and serve. >> reporter: it's challenging. older volunteers have to pass a physical, live on a minimal stipend and le

one example is the peace corps.y to find peace corps volunteers to say they had real problems with this drug. various people said they have problems with the drug and did not take it and would just rather risk of getting malaria. state department officials have claimed to have had serious brain damage from taking the drug. it is mostly federal government officials. this is the drug the federal government invented in the federal government has been handing out to government officials for a long, long time. >> mark benjamin, investigative reporter who recently wrote a piece in the huffington post called, "military scrambles to limit malaria drug just after afghanistan massacre." as we end today's show with a look at a new film about a legendary activist, judi bari, a unit organizer when she came to california and got involved with the movement to stop the clear- cutting of old growth redwood trees. she helped organize a campaign. in 1990, a pipe bomb blew up in your car when she stopped at a stop sign in oakland, cali

in just 51 years, peace corps has been unparallel force for peace. listen to the numbers. 139 developing countries have been served. over 200,000 returned peace corps volunteers and four of those are members of congress. and taken together, these volunteers have contributed more than 400,000 years of service in the name of peace. i am proud to be part of these ranks. peace corps changed my life and it continues to change the lives of both those who serve and the communities that are served. in 2012 this call to service doesn't show any sign of slowing down. 9,095 americans are serving in 76 countries, this includes my constituent case rollins of santa cruz who is working in ethiopia, helping women develop honey production and dry fruits projects to help their income. and that's the work of one volunteer. today, i honor case and other peace corps volunteers, past and present. peace, prosperity and friendship, truly your service is more important today than it's ever been. congress must fund the peace corps. best job in america. thank you. the speaker

that, from the impact of a generation that got involved in civil rights and education, work in the peace corps, and got involved in issues of war and peace. that torch of service and sacrifice has now passed to a new generation. this nation, once again, has benefited from that. it has been a decade of turmoil these last 10 years. of war and crisis. like every such decade in our history, there have been those who are willing to step forward, to give something back to their country. no group has given more than the mena nd women in the united states military -- than the men and women in the united states military. [applause] the sacrifice that they have made, and that their families and loved ones have made, are true symbols of what public service is all about. stepping forward to serve the country at a time of war takes uncommon courage and uncommon bravery. and millions have done so in the 10 years since our country was attacked on september 11. that includes many here in local -- in louisville. tonight, we are honored to be joined by soldiers from nearby fort knox and by members of the kentuc

fill the ranks of service organizations, like habitat for humanity, teach for america, and the peace corps. >> it's a great school academically, but also the commitment to serving others and using your education to further the good of the world and humanity. >> there's a whole variety of programs to get involved in, depending on your interests and language abilities oftentimes. so you can take what you learn in the classroom and apply it to social justice in d.c. >> georgetown has a very important saying, and that's "men and women for others." >> there's yet another latin phrase that you hear students use to describe their georgetown experience. >> it really fosters "cura personalis," or, you know, "the formation of a person as a whole," and it emphasizes each aspect, so your intellectual development, your spiritual growth and development, and academic growth and development. >> and that leads to leadership. for example, the georgetown class of 1968 delivered three future presidents -- arroyo of the philippines, cristiani of el salvador, and our very own 42nd president, bill clinton. georg

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we are a peace corps for dekes.hrough our fellowship program, we have been getting great developers and designers to take a year off and work with city government. what comes from that are great apps that citizens can use, but more than that, they work with the government on more innovative approaches to try to institutionalize these different approaches that reflect what we have come to call web 2.0. what we're talking about today is an amazing program funded by google, the kauffman foundation, help from her on, and others, and received an accelerator for civic start-ups. by that, we mean companies that work in the government space that will disrupt, in a healthy way, the government ecosystem, and provide a new set of vendors and provide new and innovative ways for citizens to access government services. we are very excited to be partnering with san francisco on this. i am grateful for everyone here in the room, especially mayor lee, ron conaway, a andjay, who we have seen -- and jay, who we have seen as an innovat

, which is really unprecedented in my 30 years working in the region going back to when i was a peace corps volunteer in morocco in 1980, what we've seen in the last year is unprecedented. one of the the things have i learned is there is a new generation coming up and this generation is very plugged in to the internet and it very plugged in to satellite television. they know much more about how to upload different kinds of videos than -- i mean, i'd never watched youtube until i went out as ambassador to syria. now i watch it every day. >> don't want to know what you watch. >> we won't go there, senator. >> but what i would say is there is no history but the people there that are leading the protest movement, they have a vision, they have a vision and i heard this very strongly when i went to mhoma and when i went t damascus. i heard this very strongly. they want a country where people are treated with dignity, everybody treatedwith dignity. that's the key word, dignity. and they have a country ruled by law. my own experience having served in iraq for four years isthin g it takes time. saw

weren't right in the country and there was a sense of optimism, the new frontier, space program, peace corpsng ho. >> life is clearly worse particularly if you're not a white guy. but there was a feeling of america ascendence, whether it's the moon program or how much more prosperous the country was becoming overtime. chris: and young. >> and i think on a personal basis a lot of people connect to that time and reminds them of someone in their lives. for me it's my grandparents and for a lot of people might be grandparents or parents. chris: i could do so many things. you could smoke, you could drink. >> this is the key, it's a period where you have kind of like acceptable decadence that's allowed. drinking at lunch, being able to smoke. all the health-related p.c. nonsense is off the table and looked great doing it. they have the great clothes, doing all the stuff you're not allowed to do anymore. chris: a cocktail glass, a cigarette at lunchtime, cigarette on an airplane. >> yes. chris: you start here, john. what would be a time capsule, don't tell me those also things we communicate on. >>

cicilline: madam speaker, i rise to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the united states peace corps. since its founding in 1961, the -- the peace corps has sent 100,000 american men and women to serve in 139 countries. among the 9,000 serving around the world today, are residents of rhode island's first congressional district, sara, jenna, andrew, frank, daniel, peter and daniel. peace corps volunteers create new opportunities, expand development and encourage progress around the world. year after year these selfless men and women immerse themselves in the day to day life of a developing nation, collect with local residents and work with them to share information. with the implementation of new policies this year for the peace corps response program, even more volunteers will be eligible to help those most in need. i applaud the peace corps for its accomplishments, offer my thanks to the dedicated volunteers that make it so successful and thank them for the difference they're making in the world. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the

closely the peace corps accounts beach can depress become a community that's a. bank space problems and the doing the two you want to and not a desirable scenario where the new buzzwords are gross and employment just are cilia r t brussels and the euro zone finance ministers have once again also delayed greece in its second bailout things must now wait another week pending the approval of discount old private investors who have now lost up to seventeen percent of their investments in the greek bonds and i feel for our jamie opinion leader of the u.k. independence party believes greece is not well and truly on the brink. no one doubts that tough decisions need to be taken in greece you know that's obvious but you've got to have some stimulus as well and the only way that will happen is by leaving the euro i just remember three weeks ago eighty thousand people storming the barricades of the greek parliament trying to get in and we saw five thousand armed police keeping them out with the evidence of this in spain in portugal i mean come on we saw an arab spring last

year schools sign off on loans also according through the department of education and the loans of peace corps profit schools are pretty hefty too based on an analysis of better all data by the college board more than half of students attending four year for profit colleges are going to merge with that of more than thirty thousand dollars compared to less than a quarter of students at private nonprofit colleges and twelve percent of students at public universities so this is mitt romney solution to our student loan debt problem everybody but i wonder if father since his takes prove that for profit institutions in fact saddle students with more debt i would support them i guess the answer is always follow the money twice romney has endorsed a full sale university this is a for profit institution in florida where by the way constitution runs more than eighty thousand. dollars but what i didn't mention is that full sales chief executive man named bill hemmer he's a major campaign donor and the cochairman of his state fund raising team in florida on top of that he and his wife and each given the m

including to turks and others around you are trying to say can we find some middle ground either some peace corps doers some humanitarian aid or even more but this is starting to sound like what we saw with libya earlier are in so there are diplomatic options as you mentioned and people are looking for but one of the other things that leon panetta said was that we need to have a clear legal basis for any action that's taken and so in a situation like this what exactly would be the legal basis because with libya we saw a u.n. security council resolution here there is not consensus with the u.n. security council as we saw with russia and china saying no the first time around so then what other venues are there. well that's actually the point and you know what that's really diggin trysting part because what leon panetta was talking about were having seen this from the president is before they would go to the u.n. security council which is what they were able to do with getting libya hence they got the germans they got the french they got the greats and italians others were really in all that in term

that bold idea became today's peace corps.80 presidential campaign, ronald reagan said it was time to appoint a woman to the supreme court. as president, reagan did just that. franklin roosevelt proposed the new deal before he was elected. speaking before the 1932 democratic national convention during the depths of the great depression. social security, the exchange commission, and many of the products of the new deal are integral parts of our lives today. abraham lincoln. he called for the end of slavery during a speech while running for president. and bill clinton proposed real health care reform as a candidate in 1992. even though his proposal was defeated in congress, he laid the foundation for president obama's later success. so again, i ask you, where are the big ideas of today's presidential campaign? republican candidates seem stuck on either the same platform they have used for decades or attacks on one another. this isn't good for anyone, including democrats like me. you see, we all benefit when big ideas are part of

so much so that even this month peace corps is pulling out of their operations in honduras. >> you'ved, as you point out in the piece, but the supply, stopping the drugs moving along that route, what's being done for that? >> it's the right question, because it's such a critical choke point for narcotics. over 90% of the cocaine is making its first stop in honduras. and law enforcement increasingly is beginning to pay attention to this area, but it's a very difficult battle. there's a u.s. joint task force run by the military there that's supporting the hondurans with air assets and intelligence. i embedded myself with the dea and their vetted unit. >> i think you're making a point that the dea really is fighting an uphill battle here. how do they feel about it in terms of their resources? >> obviously, they'd like to bring nor resources to the fight. the dea is a very tough, very professional organization, but the power of these cartels, which are effectively operating as multinational corporations with supply chains and distribution centers, i mean, the head of the sinaloa cartel, j

150 fearless women by women in the world if you lived there for 37 years, part of that time as a peace corpe number of womens involved. because the practice is widespread. >> right, there are millions women who are cut every year and there are at least 130 million women who have been through the practice in africa and in 28 african countries but in other countries of the world in fact, in the united states en, there's cutting that goes on, because it is entrenched tradition and very hard for people to stop without the whole group being in agreement to stop the practice. >> how do you reach within a village culture. how do you reach a different understanding much what this means to girls? >> you know, it all starts through education. so many of the women that we very reached in senegal particularly but also in the gambia, in guinea and mora takenia and even in somalia where it is very severe, it's a very severe type of cutting, and with the education, women learn about what the real consequences of cutting are. and they also learn about human rights, the right to health and their responsibil

insurgenty idea, you are asking the soldiers -- they are trained to fight and not trained to be the peace corps. you are asking them to do two things you can't reconcile. you are fighting and at the same time there's any collateral damage or casualties, the whole country will erupt and you just negated all the work you have done and that was never taken into consideration when the counter insurgenty was done. >> helene, how are we defining this? >> that's the fundamental question. senator mccain, when he was talking about being committed to victory was again talking about a counter insir skwrupb see strategy. i think nothing -- when president obama decided to do his hybrid, you know, i am going to do a little counterterrorism and counter insurgent sea, but the american people will never dedicate what you need to dedicate to that strategy. this came out at a point where we are eight years into this war. there was no way of the idea of winning the hearts and minds of the afghan people, the strategy could work unless we were in there for a long time. i was talking to somebody at the white house af

my sister laurie, you know her as jasper's mom, lived there three years while she served in the peace corpse news, i called her and reminded her about when i visited her in her village and a boa constrictor slithered slowly, heavily, ponderously over the backs of our knees one night and there is no electricity. she denies this happened, but my other sister backs me up. we were lying side by side. she shared another story too. she had bats, 42 of them. they slept in her hut during the day and went out at night. like bats do while she slept. she spent a lot of time cleaning up the bat poop and used it to fertilize her garden. they was she -- she was thinking about how symbiotic that relationship was between her and her bats. i was thinking, wow, is it a little strange that you counted your 42 bats. we laughed about those stories but we also remembered very serious things too. there was a muslim festival that she took me to where christians and muslims were celebrating together in african style. it was ebb -- ebullient. there was a lot of dancing and there was no violence. so here's hoping mal