Charlie Rose with Selig Harrison & Richard Lugar; Richard Berke & Jonathan Alter; Alan J. Flusser (January 2, 2003)
Military Times - News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
WASHINGTON — The leading Senate Democrat on military matters says President Barack Obama’s anticipated plan for significantly expanding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan must show how these reinforcements will help increase the size of the Afghan security forces.Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that more Afghan soldiers and police officers are...
Left of the Hill (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Not too surprisingly, the major themes that will be discussed on the Sunday morning talk shows today will be Afghanistan and health care. It looks like David Gregory will be doing something a little different by doing a show that focuses on giving back to the community. However, I'm a little skeptical about Rick Warren being a guest for this type of show as he has repeatedly expressed supposed of campaigns...
I Hate The Media (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
We have Senator John Kerry’s daughter, Senator Richard Lugar’s wife, and President Obama’s attorney general. The first two were drunk on alcohol and the latter was drunk on power.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The wife of Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and- run after police said she hit a parked car in northern Virginia. Fairfax County police say an officer stopped 76-year-old Charlene Lugar on Wednesday evening at a McLean intersection after seeing damage to her car.
Advance Indiana (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Charlene "Char" Lugar, wife of Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar (R), has been charged with driving under the influence following an automobile collision in which she struck a parked car in McLean, Virginia last night near the couple's suburban D.C. home. Nobody was injured in the accident. Lugar's office released this statement to Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, which makes no mention of the...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Big Government » Blog Archive » Al Gore and the Great Debate: Will He or Won’t He? The notion of remaining silent is not one readily associated with Al Gore. But, by his steadfast, years-long refusal to do anything other than pontificate about his views, such as defend them in an exchange with anyone who might know what they’re talking about, he does seem to be adopting some...
blue oklahoma - Front Page (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe is drawing criticism from a Washington, D.C. civil rights organization for threatening to filibuster a judge nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals. Inhofe's action contradicts his earlier stance against judicial filibusters, according to a statement released by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights . The judge is David Hamilton, who has the support of his home-state U.S....
ONE (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
On November 4, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, presided over by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), held the confirmation hearing for Daniel Yohannes, nominee for CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Yohannes began his testimony by praising MCC efforts; the MCC, he said, “lays innovative foundations” to [...]
ONE (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Yesterday Senator Casey (D-Penn.), who has been supportive of ONE’s priorities, made a speech on the Senate floor to encourage his fellow Senators to take action to address global food insecurity and pass the Global Food Security Act. Sen. Casey introduced the Global Food Security Act with Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.). They both serve [...]
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana is concerned about supporting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because of potential impacts on small businesses. Fortunately, he has said, in his letter to constituents on the issue: "I will continue to listen to thoughtful arguments about the bill." That's good, because small businesses will not, in fact, be harmed by the passage of this bill, and we...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
New Gallup poll indicates that the Kerry-Lugar bill, already confronting opposition from Pakistan's political and military establishment, faces a wave of popular distrust of the US as well. By Ben Arnoldy Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the October 14, 2009 edition Courtesy Of The Christian Science Monitor New Delhi - The United States is offering $7.5 billion to Pakistan for development...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., and the ranking Republican Senator Richard Lugar, R-Ind., have sent a letter to President Barack Obama "urging" him to nominate a candidate - who has already been screened - for the vacant USAID administrator position "as quickly as possible," CQ reports.
Make Me a Commentator!!! (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Nathan Tabor is uncomfortable with President Obama stating that this isn't just a Christian Nation. To be fair many Conservatives aren't. But in his latest article he takes it a step further. He did away with the annual National Day of Prayer on which the White House traditionally hosted a service in its East Room. When a reporter asked Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs about Obama's decision, Gibbs...
Advance Indiana (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
I don't hear the Left cracking up over President Barack Obama holding a Muslim dinner at the White House like they typically reacted whenever President Bush conducted Christian events there. Sen. Richard Lugar (R) and U.S. Rep. Andre Carson were among the guests at the dinner. Here's what President Obama had to say: “Islam, as we know, is part of America,” Obama said at a White House dinner...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
The Senate voted to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court today, making her the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice and just the third woman to sit on the court. The 55-year-old Sotomayor, who was confirmed by a vote of 68-31, will be sworn in on Saturday at the Court. Despite strong and vocal opposition from some Senate Republicans, nine GOP senators voted for her confirmation,...
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