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...hope for journalists may be a federal shield law, now in Congress, which would let reporters keep sources confidential under any circumstances. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have shield laws, while 18 additional states have similar protections. A federal law has been proposed by Senator Richard Lugar and Representative Mike Pence of Indiana, who have signed up dozens of co-sponsors. It's not that legislators love the media. But when it comes to advancing their politics, legislators can be world-class leakers and could have as much to lose as journalists. --With reporting by Mark Thompson...
...kick-start growth in countries that seem stuck in an endless cycle of poverty. The Bank has also striven to combat corruption among governments that receive Bank assistance, insisting that countries meet tougher standards for transparency. But some outsiders say the Bank remains too lenient. Republican U.S. Senator Richard Lugar introduced a bill last month that would help poor countries fight corruption, and that encourages transparency and accountability in multinational development banks. "Within the Bank as a whole there appears to be an institutional culture often resistant to fighting corruption," says Keith Luse, a senior staff member on Lugar...
...resolution to block the weapons sale. Nonetheless, the White House blithely announced early last week that it would go ahead with the deal unless both houses of Congress voted it down within 30 days. With just such a prospect beginning to appear likely, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana engineered the March 1 delay as a compromise. Most legislators, however, saw the move as a humiliating Administration defeat...
...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...