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  Dick Lugar - U.S. Senator for Indiana
Lugar began the quest for FUEL FREEDOM in 1996, when the average price of gasoline was $0.97 per gallon.
The ISTA and the NEA have formally endorsed Senator Lugar for reelection.
Senator Lugar has kicked off his television advertising with commercials discussing our nation's vulnerability due to our reliance upon imported oil and how Indiana can play an integral role in the quest for FUEL FREEDOM.
www.lugar2012.com   (357 words)

  
  Anti Essays : Free Essays on Policy Profile of Senator Dick Lugar Essay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lugar's involvement and membership to key Senate Foreign Affairs sub-committees, and being the chair of the full committee for one session of Congress shows his willingness and diligence to be involved in this policy area.
Lugar insists that an effort by the U.S. is needed to ensure the peace process of the war stricken region.
Opponents argue that Lugar's plan was not realistic and that he must seriously consider new proposals to solve the discord.,,,and he did...his ability to compromise on tough legislation has been a factor in his effeciveness as a lawmaker and policy formulation.
www.antiessays.com /free-essays/1050.html   (2136 words)

  
 Richard Lugar - dKosopedia
Richard Green "Dick" Lugar (born April 4, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Indiana.
Lugar served on the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners from 1964 to 1967.
Senator Lugar is Chairman of the Agriculture Committee and member of the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Dick_Lugar   (292 words)

  
 Dick Lugar for President 1996 Campaign Brochure
Senator Dick Lugar is currently serving in the U. Senate with intelligence and wisdom garnered from a lifetime of broad experiences.
A lifelong Republican, Lugar is a farmer and small businessman, a former school board member and mayor of Indianapolis, America's twelfth largest city.
Lugar co-authored ground-breaking legislation that funds the dismantling and destruction of nuclear arsenals remaining in the former Soviet Union.
www.4president.org /brochures/dicklugar1996brochure.htm   (1035 words)

  
 Lugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lugar is in Auchinleck Parish, Kyle District, Ayrshire.
Lugar is a station on the Mauchline and Muirkirk branch of the Glasgow and South Western Railway.
Near Lugar, at Bello Mill Cottage on the estate of James Boswell in Auchinleck, William Murdoch was born in 1784.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lugar   (407 words)

  
 Changing Events on the Korean Peninsula   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Shortly thereafter, in 1976, Dick Lugar was elected to the U.S. Senate, and in 2000, he was re-elected to a fifth term.
Dick Lugar is probably best known to those of us in this room for his leadership on national security policy and foreign relations.
Dick Lugar is the man on Capitol Hill for this moment.
www.heritage.org /Research/AsiaandthePacific/bclee9.cfm   (3032 words)

  
 Lugar Farm Bill Proposal Faces Criticism From Large Operations
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dick Lugar's proposal to phase out federal crop subsidies, a plan praised by the White House, has come under fire from Indiana farmers who rely on subsidies for a large portion of their income.
Under Lugar's plan, any farmer or livestock producer — not just corn, soybean, wheat, rice and cotton growers — would be eligible for assistance as long as he or she earned $20,000 to $1 million annually.
Lugar's plan would also end the practice of landowners who are not farmers — such as universities and city dwellers — cashing government assistance checks.
www.livestockweekly.com /papers/01/11/01/whllugar.asp   (641 words)

  
 Senate Republican crusades for energy shift - Grist Magazine - MSNBC.com
Dick Lugar: Well, I still believe that the problems of weapons of mass destruction, proliferation, and the growth of terrorist networks -- at least in terms of immediate crises -- are horrendous prospects.
Dick Lugar: I think we at least better start with a flexible cap-and-trade mechanism before instituting a mandate, so that when we do it's not a cataclysmic shock to the economy.
Dick Lugar: You just keep indicating as persuasively and calmly and diplomatically as possible why you believe that the facts and the trends are as you see them.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/13229809   (2192 words)

  
 Bendomenech.com: Dick Lugar is a Spineless Wussyboy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
After all, the Dick Lugar they're talking about couldn't be the same one who got steamrolled by Ferdinand Marcos.
Or the Dick Lugar who has a social conservative voting record of all of 52% according to National Journal (that's less than the pro-choice John Warner, with 57%).
Or the Dick Lugar who was a deciding vote in favor of Hate Crimes legislation.
www.bendomenech.com /blog/archives/000294.html   (477 words)

  
 Dick Lugar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lugar manages his family's 604-acre (2.4 km²) Marion County corn, soybean and tree farm.
His campaign slogan was "Dick Lugar, everything a President should be." His main plank in his platform was abolishing the IRS and income tax and replacing it with a national sales tax.
Senator Richard Lugar meeting with actress Angelina Jolie.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dick_Lugar   (806 words)

  
 Lugar and Obama Urge Destruction of Conventional Weapons Stockpiles
Lugar and Obama toured the Donetsk State Chemical Production Plant, a conventional weapons destruction facility where the U.S. has taken the lead in a three-year NATO program to destroy the weapons.
In 1997, Lugar and Nunn were joined by Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) in introducing the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, which expanded Nunn-Lugar authorities in the former Soviet Union and provided WMD expertise to first responders in American cities.
Lugar is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Obama is a new member of the committee this year.
www.fas.org /asmp/campaigns/MANPADS/2005/LugarObama.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Irregular Times Rating and Contact Information for Senator Richard Lugar of IN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Senator Richard Lugar cast a recklessly anticonstitutional "YES" vote to pass the Tyranny Act, S. Senator Lugar swore a solemn oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
If Senator Lugar represents you, call him up and ask him why he has no interest in affirming the civil rights of all Americans, even the rights of those Americans who have the gall to be unpopular.
Rather, Senator Lugar cravenly accepted the bizarre notion that a man with an anti-constitutional record, and who is unwilling to share his point of view regarding the constitution, is worthy of being elevated to the position of Chief Justice.
www.irregularbin.com /senate/senLugarIN.html   (2666 words)

  
 The Next Hurrah: In Show of Unity with Joe Biden, Dick Lugar Votes against Bolton
But Dick Lugar and Joe Biden did jointly slam the Administration's approach on North Korea, complaining about several of the things that John Bolton just happens to be connected with, in particular its disorganization and ambiguity.
Lugar, generally restrained in his criticisms, suggested that Bush administration officials appeared so divided on North Korea as to be at cross purposes.
Lugar said that the notion "that the United States position has been one of promoting regime change" - an idea kept alive through harsh criticisms of the North by administration officials - had not only made Pyongyang wary about negotiations but had also left United States allies confused.
thenexthurrah.typepad.com /the_next_hurrah/2005/06/in_show_of_unit.html   (1108 words)

  
 Richard G. Lugar - Congresspedia
Richard Green "Dick" Lugar is the Senior Senator from Indiana.
Lugar unsuccessfully sought election to the U.S. Senate in 1974, but two years later, he ran again, unseating incumbent Senator Vance Hartke.
In 1991, he initiated a partnership with Sam Nunn with the objective of eliminating latent weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Dick_Lugar   (604 words)

  
 Richard G. Lugar, United States Senator for Indiana - U.S. Leadership in the World and the Law of the Sea
On May 15, 2007, Senator Lugar wrote an essay on the importance of moving quickly on the Law of the Sea Treaty.
In addition, Chairman Lugar submitted questions for the record to Dr. Rice to follow-up on the Law of the Sea.
Lugar wrote in the March 8, 2004 issue of Navy Times: “Imagine if a U.S. Naval Task Force, rushing from the Persian Gulf to a crisis on the Korean peninsula, had to take a 3,000-mile detour around Indonesia.
lugar.senate.gov /sfrc/sea.html   (1227 words)

  
 Sen. Dick Lugar endorses debating   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Perhaps this is why Republican Senator Richard D. Lugar of Indiana was at Johns Hopkins University on January 31 to give the keynote address in opening the North American Parliamentary Championship in Debate.
Senator Lugar did not talk about this topic for very long, instead choosing to shift his focus to a third and final issue that has been making headlines for quite some time.
As Senator Lugar wished the debate competitors luck, he remarked, "I applaud your sense of general knowledge." As Senator Lugar is known to be seen jogging around the Capitol, as a token for their appreciation the Debate Society presented him a Johns Hopkins T-shirt to be used for this purpose.
www.jhu.edu /~newslett/02-07-97/News/Sen._Dick_Lugar_endorses_debating.html   (647 words)

  
 Lugar Introduces Energy Legislation - Newsroom - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
In addition, Lugar and Harkin (D-IA) today introduced the Ethanol Infrastructure Expansion Act, which would require the Secretary of Energy to study the feasibility of constructing one or more dedicated ethanol pipelines to increase the energy, economic and environmental security of the United States.
In 1999, Lugar and former CIA Director James Woolsey co-authored a seminal article that linked foreign policy and the high cost of securing foreign oil flowing to the United States with the development of homegrown ethanol derived from any form of cellulose ("The New Petroleum," Foreign Affairs).
Lugar also introduced the Energy Diplomacy and Security Act, S. 2435, which would recognize energy security to be a foremost concern for United States national security and would realign U.S. diplomatic priorities to meet energy security challenges.
www.insideindianabusiness.com /newsitem.asp?ID=19873   (1166 words)

  
 Photo Tour: Dick Lugar campaigning in Iowa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dick Lugar tours the PMX Industries plant, Friday August 18, with president Chung Ryu.
Lugar shakes hands with actor Tom Arnold in the skybox area above Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City during the Iowa-Indiana football game on Oct. 14.
Republican presidential candidate Dick Lugar speaks about the presidential campaign process to a political science class, ''Running for the American Presidency,'' Jan. 12 at Coe College.
www.gazetteonline.com /caucus/lugar/glugpic.htm   (164 words)

  
 An interview with Dick Lugar, GOP crusader for energy independence | By Amanda Griscom Little | Grist | Main Dish | 07 ...
Republican from Indiana and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar is no stranger to superlatives: Named one of the "10 Best Senators" in a recent issue of Time Magazine, he is also widely considered one of the most influential moderate Republicans in Washington.
Lugar spoke recently with Grist's Amanda Griscom Little from his tree farm in Indiana about the looming energy crisis, his affection for ethanol, and President Bush's record on energy issues.
The fact that Lugar is a politician from the Corn Belt (who happens to also grow both corn and soybeans) makes his opinions on the subject of corn and soy based biofuels absolutely predictable.
www.grist.org /news/maindish/2006/06/07/little/index.html?source=rss   (2498 words)

  
 News page
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar applauded unanimous Senate passage of the third installment of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA III).
Lugar has met at length with the African Diplomatic Corps regarding the importance of the AGOA III legislation and the importance of building on the progress accomplished by the legislation so far.
The Diplomatic Corps expressed their gratitude to Lugar on his leadership on AGOA since its inception and his efforts to ensure that AGOA receives timely renewal.
www.africasummit.org /news/agoa3pass_lugar.html   (380 words)

  
 The Left Coaster: Dick Lugar Tags Bush For His "Deficient" Diplomacy
Dick Lugar thinks the Bush Administration is "deficient" at diplomacy.
Lugar's point is that even if the decisions are correct (and that is debatable itself), the Administration starting with Bush at the top is deficient at getting the support of other countries and convincing them of our aims.
Since the PNAC agenda doesn't place a high value on international support, and since Cheney, Rummy, and Wolfie are the instruments of this F**K You foreign policy, Lugar in essence is laying this nation's isolation in the world at the feet of Bush and Cheney.
www.theleftcoaster.com /archives/001604.php   (156 words)

  
 Administration assures Lugar of progress on sanctions negotiations
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar today asked the Clinton Administration to get off the stick on working with Members of Congress in drafting consensus language that would advance The Sanctions Policy Reform Act of 1999.
During a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Assistant Secretary of State Stuart Eisenstat told Lugar that the language would be completed in the next few weeks while the committee is debating the sanctions issue.
Lugar is the sponsor of The Sanctions Policy Reform Act of 1999 (S. 757), which is cosponsored by 37 other Senators.
www.usaengage.org /archives/news/990702pr.html   (433 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Dick Lugar": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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Lugar has been a leader of his peers.
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