Original sentence: In September 1991, Coverdell resigned as director of the Peace Corps to run for the Senate.Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Barbara Ferris, President of the International Women's Democracy Center, said that Coverdell traveled nearly 30 times to Georgia in less than one year saying he was "trying to increase the number of recruits from there" and said that it looked like Coverdell was running his Senate campaign from the Peace Corps.There is some controversy over Coverdell's tenure as Peace Corps Director
Edited sentence: Congress in the late 1980's.Coverdell had served as a Georgia State Senator for more than two decades and was encouraged to consider a run for the U.Ferris' political affiliation make these claims sound more partisan and brings into question her objectivity on the matter.House of Representatives, from Ohio, made the claim that Coverdell took nearly 30 trips to Georgia under the guise of "increasing recruits" from the state; however in Ferris' view, these were campaign trips.In September 1991, Coverdell resigned as director of the Peace Corps to run for the Senate, taking advantage of the timing for another run at national office.In fact, Ferris was the leader of a faction of Peace Corps volunteers who opposed the naming of the Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington for Coverdell; a posthumous honor made a year after his untimely death.Most notably,  Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Barbara Ferris, a current and former Democratic Party candidate for the U.Senate did not even take a vote on the bill honoring the Senator; the measure was passed with unanimous consent.Senate in 1992.Some have claimed that controversy existed during Coverdell's tenure as Peace Corps Director; namely that Coverdell traveled a number of times to Georgia in what some claimed to be political activities.Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, voting in favor of the measure.The U.The incumbent Senator, Wyche Fowler (D), had been weakened by alleged involvement in the check cashing scandal which hit the U.The naming of the Headquarters was overwhelming approved by the House of Representatives with members from both sides of the political aisle, including then Congressman Henry Hyde and current U