Lugar Announces 7,000 Veteran Interviews
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar announced, in advance of Veterans Day, that he has collected the personal stories of 7,000 Hoosier veterans for permanent inclusion in the Veterans History Project.
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Lugar Statement on Sec. Rumsfeld and Dr. Gates
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar made the following statement on the announcement of Secretary Rumsfeld’s resignation and President Bush’s nomination of Dr. Robert M. Gates to succeed him:

“I congratulate President Bush on his nomination of Dr. Robert M. Gates to succeed Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as our nation’s new Secretary of Defense. I had the privilege of serving on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 18 years and appreciating the remarkable testimony of Bob Gates during his service as Director of Central Intelligence and Deputy National Security Advisor. I am confident that he will bring an experienced perspective to enhance the support of our national security and of the members of our Armed Forces as they face extraordinary challenges.”

Lugar Welcomes Appointment of Special Advisor and International Energy Coordinator at the State Department
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar welcomed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s recent announcement of her intent to appoint Mr. Gregory Manuel to the newly created position of Special Advisor and International Energy Coordinator at the State Department.
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Lugar Champions Hoosier Embrace of the New Realism in Energy
In more than a dozen events over the next five days across Indiana, U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar is praising the embrace by Hoosiers of the “new realism” in American energy security.
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Bayh, Lugar Offer Plan to Prevent Future Medical Mistakes
U.S. Senators Evan Bayh and Richard Lugar today announced plans to introduce legislation that will require hospitals to report whether they have adopted newly established safety measures to help prevent future tragedies such as recent infant deaths at an Indianapolis hospital.
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Lugar Praises First Use of Debt-for-Nature Act in Africa
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar praised today’s announcement that the Bush Administration has completed the first debt-for-nature agreement in Africa under the Lugar-Biden Tropical Rain Forest Conservation Act (TFCA).
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Lugar Announces 30th Annual Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders
This December, U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar will open the 30th annual Lugar Symposium for Tomorrow’s Leaders. Since his election to Senate in 1976, Lugar has held a symposium for outstanding high school juniors each year from across Indiana to discuss current events and issues.
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Hoosier Fire Departments Receive More Than $1.7 Million
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar was notified today that seventeen Indiana fire departments will receive funds from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighter Grants Program (AFGP).
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Lugar Visits With Indiana’s Outstanding Older Worker
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar visited Wednesday with 69-year-old Harriet Sweedler Miller of Fort Wayne, who was chosen by Experience Works as Indiana’s Outstanding Older Worker of 2006.
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Senate Approves U.S.-U.K. Extradition and Geneva Protocol III Treaties
U.S. Senate last week unanimously approved the Extradition Treaty Between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Senate also approved Geneva Protocol III (the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem).
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Lugar Named “Guardian of Small Business”
U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar was named a “Guardian of Small Business” by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) for a 100 percent voting record on behalf of America’s small-business owners during the 109th Congress.
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