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Abbreviation ofcongressional delegation , government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.
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Examples
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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 "
Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959
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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."
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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.
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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 2008
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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.
An Ounce of Twitter Discretion... Scola, Nancy 2009
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How much Hoekstra's posts actually put the codel at any sort of risk isn't clear.
Hoekstra Twitters Details of Iraq Codel Scola, Nancy 2009
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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 2009
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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 2009
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For what it's worth, Pete Hoekstra isn't making any apologies for all that posting to Twitter while on a codel in Baghdad.
Stop the Presses! Congress Has a Case of the Twitters Scola, Nancy 2009
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"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."
taciturnyetprolix commented on the word codel
Short for Congressional delegation.
July 29, 2008
whichbe commented on the word codel
Too often a mollycodel.
December 31, 2008