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...White House had essentially acknowledged the futility of keeping Bolton in the post by resubmitting his nomination at the worst possible moment - on the morning of Nov. 9, just as the Democrats were celebrating their election victory. Sen. Richard Lugar, the Indiana Republican who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said he would not even put the matter to a committee vote during the last days of G.O.P. control, since all of the Democrats on the committee, plus Sen. Lincoln Chaffee, the Rhode Island Republican who also opposed him, would still vote...
...Karin Agness, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia (UVA), got the idea for NeW when she returned to college after a summer spent interning for Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) in Washington. "I loved being around other conservative women and wanted to find more women like that at UVA," says Agness, 22, who hails from Indianapolis. "Unfortunately, all the women's groups on campus were really liberal and biased. And when I asked a [women's studies professor] if anybody would be interested in sponsoring a conservative women's group, she just laughed...
...Senate, Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has warmed only slightly to the agreement. Immediately after Bush signed it, Lugar was noncommittal. On Monday, he budged a little, telling his hometown newspaper, the Indianapolis Star, in an interview that he was "likely to favor" the accord if it was "in the best interest of our country" and if there were safeguards in place to make sure India didn't use U.S. nuclear help to build up the small arsenal of nuclear weapons it already...
...entered the Senate, has emerged as a key player on defense issues; Obama is expanding his horizons with foreign policy. When Katrina hit, Obama was on his first major foreign trip as a senator, a ten-day visit to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan, where he joined Republican Richard Lugar to learn about efforts to dispose of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union...
Later this academic year, The Kirkland speaker series is expecting to host other high-profile guests including Sen. Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., MSNBC commentator Joe Scarborough, and NBC News anchor Brian Williams...