Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Abbreviation of congressional delegation, government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.
Examples
“This is like trying to put together a Nike head when all your working instructions are written in Chinese codel Yeah the red cord hits the plate there but does it say anything about these white loop-de-loops to the left ”
“In San Francisco last week he derided the typical "codel" (congressional delegation) trip in which "you go from the airport to the embassy … then you go home.”
“Days before legislators are scheduled to discuss global warming at a climate change summit, accusations flew about the politics of who gets a codel invitation.”
“The Democratic nominee's choice of traveling companions for his trip to Iraq and Afghanistan is one reason this will be no typical codel.”
Obama’s War-Zone Traveling Companions - Swampland - TIME.com
“If you recall ... he was on a codel in Afghanistan and Iraq, with his Senate staff ...”
Pentagon Confirms That It Told Obama He Couldn't Visit Army Base With Campaign Staff
“And there were State Department officials in every meeting that we had on this codel.”
State Department Refusing To Say Whether Pelosi Trip Violated Logan Act
“For what it's worth, Pete Hoekstra isn't making any apologies for all that posting to Twitter while on a codel in Baghdad.”
“First came word that House Republican Pete Hoekstra's tweeting from a Baghdad codel both broke a press embargo and, according to some reports, put his traveling companions (which included a good chunk of the House GOP leadership) in danger.”
“How much Hoekstra's posts actually put the codel at any sort of risk isn't clear.”
“And this was before he turned up in Uzbekistan to protest human-rights abuses by that country's authoritarian regime, while leading a Senate Armed Services Committee codel to five countries in the region," I wrote at the time., adding, "I wouldn't have been surprised to see him driving the pace car in the Indianapolis 500 or riding a Harley hog down Constitution Avenue in the Rolling Thunder rally.”
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The House
A list compiled while reading The House: The History of the House of Representatives.
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whichbe Too often a mollycodel. Dec 30, 2008
taciturnyetprolix Short for Congressional delegation. Jul 29, 2008