they've been to mexico and lived in orphanages in trinidad, they've been to honduras, africa, zambia. all with that mentality of helping other people. but the peace corps volunteers are people like that who spend at least two years in service to their country, and sometimes when they are in those foreign countries they stick out. they are noticeable by the people who live in that country. and because of that, occasionally, sometimes, more often than it should be, they attract crimes that occur against them. and that is the issue, mr. speaker, i want to address tonight. over the last 10 years, 1,000 americans, mainly women, have been sexually assaulted, raped or assaulted in some other way in a foreign country, representing the united states in the peace corps. between 2000 and 2009, peace corps themselves say there were over 221 rapes and attempted rapes, almost 150 major sexual attacks and other 700 other sexual assaults, sexual assault is anything from groping to fondling to conduct that is offensive to that peace corps volunteer. once again, 1,000 crimes against american peace corp