Senator Leahy

Wise Women Unite! What Sotomayor Should Have Said

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


C. Nicole Mason

Racial and ethnic minorities and women are the only groups asked to check their identity at the door. It is assumed that once given access to power, they will try to funnel those resources to their own kind.

A Tale of Two Houses: Congress Debates the Peace Corps

Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics


Laurence Leamer

Sen. Leahy detailed how, during the Bush years, the Peace Corps had arrogantly ignored his repeated requests for information. I told him it was a new administration and a new time, but that didn't seem to matter.

Senator Leahy Holds the Future of the Peace Corps in His Hands

Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics


Laurence Leamer

Thursday, Leahy will have the power to give birth to a bold new Peace Corps or possibly to destroy that dream forever.

Senator Leahy's Letter to the G.A.O., the Investigative Arm of the U.S. Congress

Sunil Chacko | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics


Sunil Chacko

The letter to the G.A.O., the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, now over a year old, was sent by U.S. Senators Leahy, Bayh and Lugar following the disappearance of the Bayh Amendment.

Chris Dodd's Peace Corps: "The Ambitious Sense of the Possible"

Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics


Laurence Leamer

Dodd's bill was born not in his office in the Russell Building but in the tiny village of Moncion in the Dominican Republic more than forty years ago.

Clinton Says Release Of Detainee Photos Could Endanger U.S. Diplomats

The Plum Line | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


I noted here yesterday that at a press conference, Senator Lindsey Graham disclosed that Hillary Clinton had privately confided to him that she worrie...

I.O.U. Who?

Judith Ellis | Posted 03.31.2009 | Business


Judith Ellis

The documentary, I.O.U.S.A, was recently brought to my attention and it will probably be the most sobering clip that you will ever see about the state of the economy.

G-7, G-14 and G-20: Yet Another Tardy Call

Sunil Chacko | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics


Sunil Chacko

First the years-late call on the global food crisis. Now, Robert Zoellick, current World Bank president, has done it again on the international financial crisis.