Word: lugar
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...year. But no one can top Delaware senator and potential 2008 presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has appeared on Sunday shows seven times. Other Republicans who are strong on the list include Senate Leaders Bill Frist and Mitch McConnell. The surprise in second place is Indiana. Sen. Dick Lugar. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar plays a key role in overseeing administration policy in Iraq, and unlike some Republicans, will occasionally criticize the President...
...conventional wisdom in Europe is that the ban (which has never been watertight) will be ended this year. Conceivably, though, threats of retaliation from the U.S. Congress might convince the E.U. to back down?Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Financial Times recently that he would support a ban on the export of sensitive American technology to Europe if there were a chance it would end up in Chinese hands. That will be enough to persuade some European firms with substantial American business?such as BAE Systems, the U.K's largest defense company...
...will remain steady even if he does. But given Chávez's anti-Bush fervor--and the leverage that sky-high oil prices afford him--Washington is nonetheless starting to worry that the flow of Venezuelan oil might shrink significantly by the end of this decade. Indiana Senator Richard Lugar has asked the Government Accountability Office to study what "contingencies are in place to mitigate the effects" of a sharp Venezuelan shortfall, "as this could have serious consequences for our nation's security." Other Senators are urging the Bush Administration to mend fences with the democratically elected Chávez, whom...
...recorded acts of harassment, intimidation and multiple voting and noted that the list of the country's eligible voters mysteriously grew 5% on Election Day. The OSCE investigated and dismissed as groundless complaints of multiple voting and ballot fixing leveled against Yushchenko's campaign by Yanukovych officials. Senator Richard Lugar, who represented the U.S. at the vote, was scathing in his assessment: "A concerted and forceful program of Election Day fraud and abuse was enacted with either the leadership or cooperation of governmental authorities...
...interviewed by James Fallows in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. It also appeared to coincide with a barrage of criticism by Senate Republicans of the administration's handling of Iraq, echoing many of Kerry's points and even, in the case of Indiana's Republican Senator Richard Lugar, questioning the administration's competence...