S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Dick Lugar (R-IN) “said Sunday that the Senate should set aside the impending debate on the health care reform bill and, instead, use the remainder of the year to focus on the appropriate strategy for the Afghanistan war, funding the war, and passing the appropriations bill necessary to [...]
The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Batchelor writes on his blog: Blow It Up. Dick Lugar of Indiana speaks a flat and plain tactic that he calls “audacious” that POTUS and the Democrats put aside (shelve, dump, retire, quit, forget) the healthcare reform mania and turn instead to the Afghanistan war and to jobs and the [...]
Strange Bedfellows (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Politico sums up Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, views on funding for the Afghan war. Appearing on the Sunday talk shows, Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, dismissed as "ridiculous" the chatter from those, including Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind., about the stress the U.S. participation in Afghanistan is putting on the American economy.
S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Here’s a list of Senators hitting the Sunday talk show circuit tomorrow: Face the Nation (CBS) – Carl Levin (D-MI) State of the Union (CNN) – Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Jack Reed (D-RI) Fox News Sunday – Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) Meet the Press (NBC) – None This Week (ABC) – Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bernie [...]
The Caucus (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
CNN’s “State of the Union” has Senators Dick Lugar of Indiana, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, and Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and a member of the Armed Services Committee. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, now the special envoy to the Middle East, will discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.The chairman of the House Appropriations Committee,...
S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The White House is hosting a State Dinner this evening for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Listed below are Senators who have been invited, per Mike Allen: Bob Casey (D-PA) Kent Conrad (D-ND) Chris Dodd (D-CT) Daniel Inouye (D-HI) John Kerry (D-MA) Dick Lugar (R-IN) Claire McCaskill (D-MO) (credit image – getty)
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... paid fines, paid back taxes and learned English.” Republican Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Dick Lugar (R-IN), George Voinovich (R-OH), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Bob Bennett (R-UT), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Susan Collins (R-ME), Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) voted for the bill. John McCain his very own self? Ohh nooo!!! Not...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
In Passing Stuff to make your hair stand up Unplugged “ State Dinner Guest List Includes Only One Likely GOP Attendee - Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar Sewing seeds of dissension, or telegraphing who Obamunists see as the weakest link in the health care debate? Either way it is another calculated in-your-face move from a creep who once again bowed a calculated stick-in-our-eyes? to a foreign...
S E N A T U S (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Committee Ranking Member John McCain (R-AZ) and Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Dick Lugar (R-IN) are three top Senate Republicans planning to attend the meeting. President Obama will make a prime-time address on Tuesday from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to announce his decision on Afghanistan. McClatchy Newspapers reported this week that he plans to “dispatch...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
11/24 UPDATE: Politico reports that other expected attendees include Nancy Pelosi, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, Senator John Kerry, Senator Dick Lugar, Vishakha N. Desai, president of the Asia Society, M. Night Shyamalan, Ari Emanuel of WME Entertainment, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Raju Narisetti, managing editor of the Washington Post, Kal Penn, Associate Director of White...
This Week With Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Producer Steven Spielberg, music mogul David Geffen and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman are among the guests at tonight's White House state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) will be attending, and he's not the only Republican.Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is attending, as is Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN).New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...
