Richard G. Lugar 

U.S. SENATOR FROM INDIANA 

TRIBUTES 

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Tributes 

Delivered in Congress 

Richard G. Lugar 

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CONTENTS 

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Biography .................................................................................................. v 

Farewell Address ...................................................................................... vii 

Proceedings in the Senate: 

Tributes by Senators: 

Cardin, Benjamin L., of Maryland ............................................ 3, 24 

Coats, Daniel, of Indiana ........................................................... 10 

Collins, Susan M., of Maine ...................................................... 4 

Conrad, Kent, of North Dakota ................................................. 13 

Coons, Christopher A., of Delaware ......................................... 19 

Durbin, Richard J., of Illinois ................................................... 8 

Enzi, Michael B., of Wyoming ................................................... 20 

Harkin, Tom, of Iowa ................................................................. 3, 15 

Isakson, Johnny, of Georgia ...................................................... 9 

Kerry, John F., of Massachusetts ............................................. 3 

Leahy, Patrick J., of Vermont ................................................... 22 

Levin, Carl, of Michigan ............................................................ 17 

McConnell, Mitch, of Kentucky ................................................. 5 

Mikulski, Barbara A., of Maryland .......................................... 14 

Murkowski, Lisa, of Alaska ....................................................... 27 

Reed, Jack, of Rhode Island ...................................................... 18 

Reid, Harry, of Nevada .............................................................. 28 

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BIOGRAPHY 

RICHARD LUGAR was born in Indianapolis, Marion County, 

IN, on April 4, 1932, the oldest of three children of Marvin 

and Bertha Lugar. An Eagle Scout, he graduated first in his 

class at both Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, and 

Denison University in Granville, OH. He attended Pembroke 

College, Oxford, England, as a Rhodes scholar, and received 

a graduate degree in 1956. He served in the Navy from 1957 

to 1960. Upon leaving the Navy he returned to Indianapolis, 

where he ran, with his brother Tom, the family’s food production manufacturing business, and the family farm. He 

was elected a member of the Indianapolis Board of School 

Commissioners and served from 1964 to 1967. Subsequently 

he was elected mayor of Indianapolis and served from 1968 

to 1975. 

He was elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1976 and 

reelected in 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000, and 2006. He served 

until January 3, 2013. He served as chair of the Republican 

Senatorial Campaign Committee, 98th Congress; Committee 

on Foreign Relations, 99th Congress, 108th and 109th Congresses; and Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, 104th through 107th Congresses. 

Among his foreign policy contributions were the Lugar Energy Initiative to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy 

sources, the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to safeguard and dismantle weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union, the Anti-apartheid Act to 

impose economic and political sanctions on South Africa, and 

the African Growth and Opportunity Act that promotes trade 

and encourages African countries to integrate into the global 

economy. He played key roles in Senate ratification of the 

START I, START II, and INF Treaties and the Chemical 

Weapons Convention. He was an early supporter of NATO 

enlargement. 

In agriculture Senator LUGAR built bipartisan support for 

Federal farm program reforms in the 1996 farm bill and for 

restraining agriculture subsidies and administering farm 

programs more equitably in the 2002 farm bill debate. He 

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partment of Agriculture, reform the food stamp program, and 

require daily price reporting by packers. Recognizing that 

trade expansion is key to the agricultural economy, he 

worked to improve trade opportunities for farmers, supported 

normal trade relations with China, trade promotion authority (fast track) for the President, and vigorous negotiating to 

lower foreign barriers to U.S. farm products. 

Among Senator LUGAR’s many other initiatives are a law 

providing funding for competitive agricultural research 

grants and the National Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals 

Act of 2000, which promotes production of cost-effective 

biofuels made from plant material. He supported literacy 

and school reform and authored the S–CHIP Improvement 

Act of 1999, which facilitated signups for the Children’s 

Health Care Insurance Program. He authored bills to promote control of soil erosion, improve rural water quality, and 

control acid rain. He helped facilitate training of first responders. He was a leader in negotiating the bailout programs for Chrysler and New York City loan programs. As a 

member of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, he was a strong advocate for improving the legislative 

process, streamlining appointment procedures, adopting a 2- 

year budget, and limiting the use of Senate ‘‘holds.’’ 

The Lugars were married in 1956. RICHARD LUGAR and his 

wife Charlene have four grown children: Mark, Robert, John, 

and David, and 13 grandchildren. 

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Farewell to the Senate 

Wednessday, December 12, 2012 

Mr. LUGAR. Madam President, I rise today to address my 

colleagues on a number of issues important to the future of 

the United States and to offer some perspective on Senate 

service. 

In a few weeks, I will leave the Senate for new pursuits 

that will allow me to devote much deeper attention to a 

number of issues that have been a part of my Senate service. 

Among these are preventing the proliferation of weapons of 

mass destruction and developing more efficient ways to feed 

the world. I am especially pleased that I will be serving on 

the faculty of the University of Indianapolis and helping that 

institution establish a Washington internship program. I 

look forward to announcing additional endeavors of service 

in coming weeks. 

My service in the Senate would not have been possible 

without the encouragement and constant support of my loving wife Char, our four sons—Mark, Bob, John, and David— 

and the entire Lugar family. Their strength and sacrifices 

have been indispensable to my public service. I also am indebted to a great number of talented and loyal friends who 

have served with me in the Senate, including more than 300 

Senators, hundreds of personal and committee staff members, and more than 1,000 interns. In my experience, it is 

difficult to conceive of a better platform from which to devote 

oneself to public service and the search for solutions to national and international problems. At its best, the Senate is 

one of the Founders’ most important creations. 

A great deal has been written recently about political discord in the United States, with some commentators judging 

that partisanship is at an alltime high. Having seen quite a 

few periods in the Congress when political struggles were 

portrayed this way, I hesitate to describe our current state 

as the most partisan ever. But I do believe that as an institution we have not lived up to the expectations of our constituents to make excellence in governance our top priority. 

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Many of us have had some type of executive experience as 

Governors, mayors, corporation chiefs, and Cabinet officials. 

I had the good fortune of serving two terms as the mayor of 

Indianapolis prior to my Senate service. For the last 36 years 

I have attempted to apply lessons learned during those early 

governing experiences to my work in the Senate. As mayor, 

my responsibility for what happened in my city was comprehensive and inescapable. Citizens held the mayor’s office 

accountable for the prosaic tasks of daily life, like trash collection and snow removal, but also for executing strategies 

for the economic and social advancement of the city. 

In legislative life, by contrast, we are responsible for positions expressed through votes, cosponsorships, interviews, 

and other means. It takes courage to declare dozens or even 

hundreds of positions and stand for office, knowing that with 

each position, you are displeasing some group of voters. We 

do our country a disservice if we mistake the act of taking 

positions for governance. They are not the same thing. Governance requires adaptation to shifting circumstances. It 

often requires finding common ground with Americans who 

have a different vision than your own. It requires leaders 

who believe, like Edmund Burke, that their first responsibility to their constituents is to apply their best judgment. 

It is possible to be elected and reelected, again and again 

and gain prominence in the Senate while giving very little 

thought to governance. One can even gain considerable notoriety by devoting one’s career to the political aspects of a 

Senator’s job—promoting the party line, raising money, and 

focusing on public relations. Responsibility for legislative 

shortcomings can be pinned on the other party or even intractable members of one’s own party. None of us is above 

politics, nor did the Founders expect us to be. But, obviously, 

we should be aspiring to something greater than this. 

Too often in recent years, Members of Congress have 

locked themselves into a slate of inflexible positions, many of 

which have no hope of being implemented in a divided government. Some of these positions have been further calcified 

by pledges signed for political purposes. Too often we have 

failed to listen to one another and question whether the orthodox views being promulgated by our parties make strategic sense for America’s future. The result has been intractably negative public perceptions of Congress. A Rasmussen 

Reports poll conducted this month found that only 10 percent 

of likely voters gave Congress a rating of ‘‘excellent’’ or 

‘‘good.’’ 

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For me, the irony is that having seen several generations 

of lawmakers pass through this body, I can attest that the 

vast majority are hard working, genuinely interested in public service, and eager to contribute to the welfare of our 

country. Often, the public does not believe that. It is easier 

to assume that congressional failings arise from the incompetence or even the malfeasance of individual legislators. Or 

perhaps, as some believe, Washington, DC, itself is corrupting. It is far more disconcerting to think that our democracy’s shortcomings are complex and defy simple solutions, 

but the Founders were realists who understood the power of 

factionalism, parochialism, and personal ambition. They understood that good intentions would not always prevail. Accordingly, they designed a system to check abuse and prevent power from accumulating in a few hands. But they 

knew that the efficient operation of such a republic would require a great deal of cooperation. They knew that it would 

require most elected officials to have a dedication to governance, and they trusted that leaders would arise in every era 

to make their vision work. 

The Senate has a unique role to play in good governance. 

We have attributes not possessed by the executive branch, 

including staying power. Administrations turn over every 4 

or 8 years. But Senators can have careers spanning decades 

that allow them to apply expertise and political understanding to problems over many years, even as administrations come and go. We can also confer a bipartisan framework on a policy. Even a small bipartisan group of Senators 

cooperating on a difficult problem is a powerful signal of the 

possibility for a unifying solution. 

My hope is that Senators will devote much more of their 

energies to governance. In a perfect world, we would not only 

govern, we would execute a coherent strategy. That is a very 

high bar for any legislative body to clear. But we must aspire 

to it in cooperation with the President because we are facing 

fundamental changes in the world order that will deeply affect America’s security and standard of living. 

The list of such changes is long, but it starts in Asia with 

the rise of China and India as economic, political, and military powers. The Obama administration has conspicuously 

announced a ‘‘pivot’’ to Asia. At the center of this pivot is 

China, which exists as both an adversary to certain U.S. interests, and a fellow traveler sharing mutual goals and 

vulnerabilities on others. The ongoing challenge will be for 

the United States to discern, sometimes issue by issue, 

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whether China is an adversary or a partner. This calibration 

will impact America’s relations with the rest of Asia and 

may ultimately determine prospects for war or peace in this 

world. 

While visiting Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines in 

October, I was reminded of the economic vitality of Southeast Asia and the fact that the 10 countries comprising 

ASEAN represent the fourth largest export market of the 

United States. These countries are center stage to the circumstances with China. We must stand firm with our 

friends throughout Asia and actively pursue prospects for 

free trade with open sealanes and other policies that will 

strengthen America’s economic growth. 

More broadly, we face the specter of global resource constraints, especially deficiencies of energy and food that could 

stimulate conflict and deepen poverty. We have made startling gains in domestic energy production, but we remain 

highly vulnerable to our dependency on oil. Perhaps equally 

important, even if we are able to produce more energy at 

home, we cannot insulate ourselves from energy-driven 

shocks to the global economy. In other words, we have to cooperate with other nations in improving the global system of 

manufacturing and moving energy supplies. Currently, a key 

to this is helping to ensure the completion of the southern 

energy corridor serving Central and Southeastern Europe 

and unleashing our own liquefied natural gas exports to address the energy vulnerabilities of our closest allies. 

The potential global crisis over food production is less well 

understood. Whereas research is opening many new frontiers 

in the energy sphere, the productivity of global agriculture 

will not keep up with projected food demand unless many 

countries change their policies. This starts with a much 

wider embrace of agriculture technology, including genetically modified techniques. The risks of climate change intensify this imperative. 

Even as we deal with potential resource constraints, our 

country remains vulnerable to terrorism and asymmetric 

warfare. Access to the Internet and social media has deeply 

altered international politics, in most cases for the better. 

But it also has contributed to instability through sudden upheavals like the Arab Spring; it has allowed destructive terrorist movements like Al Qaeda to franchise themselves; and 

it has intensified risks of cyberattacks, espionage, and the 

proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The potential 

catastrophe remains of a major terrorist attack on American 

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soil employing weapons of mass destruction. If that happens, 

in addition to the lives lost, our expectations for economic 

growth and budget balancing could be set back by a decade 

or more. Having devoted considerable time to this problem, 

my experience is that there are no silver bullets. Protecting 

the United States from weapons of mass destruction is a 

painstaking process that every day must employ our best 

technological, diplomatic, and military tools. 

Amidst all these security risks, we must maintain the competitiveness of the United States in the international economy. We should see education, energy efficiency, access to 

global markets, the attraction of immigrant entrepreneurs, 

and other factors as national security issues. My own view 

is that the fundamentals of American society still offer us 

the best hand to play in global competitiveness. No other 

country can match the quality and variety of our postsecondary education. We have the broadest scientific and technological base and the most advanced agricultural system. 

Our population is younger and more mobile than most other 

industrialized nations. We can still flourish in this global 

marketplace if we nurture the competitive genius of the 

American people that has allowed us time and again to reinvent our economy. 

But we must deal with failures of governance that have 

delayed resolutions to obvious problems. No rational strategy 

for our long-term growth and security, for example, should 

fail to restrain current entitlement spending. No attempt to 

gain the maximum strategic advantage from our human resource potential should fail to enact comprehensive immigration reform that resolves the status of undocumented immigrants and encourages the most talented immigrants to contribute to America’s future. 

Faced with immense responsibilities, there is a need to elevate our Senate debate. It is vital that the President and 

Congress establish a closer working relationship, especially 

on national security. This is not just a matter of process. It 

is necessary to undergird national unity in the event of severe crises, such as war with Iran or another catastrophic 

terrorist attack. 

This cooperation depends both on congressional leaders 

who are willing to set aside partisan advantage and on administration officials who understand that the benefits of 

having the support of Congress is worth the effort it takes 

to secure it. Currently the national security dialog between 

the President and Congress is one of the least constructive 

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that I have ever witnessed. There is little foundation for resolving national security disputes or even the expectation 

that this can occur. Before the next 9/11, the President must 

be willing to call Republicans to the Oval Office to establish 

the basis for a working partnership in foreign policy. And 

Republicans must be willing to suspend reflexive opposition 

that serves no purpose but to limit their own role in strategic 

questions and render cooperation impossible. All parties 

should recognize the need for unity in the coming year when 

events in Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea, and other 

locations may test American national security in extreme 

ways. 

I commend each of you, my Senate colleagues, for the commitment that led you to stand for election to the U.S. Senate. 

Running for office is a difficult endeavor that is usually accompanied by great personal risk and cost. Each one of you 

is capable of being a positive force for changing the tone of 

debate in our country. Each one of you has a responsibility 

not only to act with integrity and represent your constituents, but also to make the informed and imaginative choices 

on which good governance for our country depends. 

I am optimistic about our country’s future. I believe that 

both internal divisions and external threats can be overcome. 

The United States will continue to serve as the inspiration 

for people seeking peace, freedom, and economic prosperity. 

And the U.S. Senate should and will be at the forefront of 

this advancement. 

May we seek each day from God our creator, the wisdom 

and the will to do our best in the governance of our country. 

And may God continue to bless the United States of America. 

I yield the floor. 

TRIBUTES 

TO 

RICHARD G. LUGAR 

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Proceedings in the Senate 

TUESDAY, November 27, 2012 

Mr. HARKIN. . . . I thank Senator LUGAR for all of his efforts through so many years on so many different issues, and 

on this issue especially [the rights of persons with disabilities], going back to the beginning of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If I might divert from this just for one brief moment to thank Senator LUGAR for his leadership in making 

the world safer by getting rid of nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union. What a singular effort that has been. Senator 

LUGAR has done much to make the world a better place for 

us and for our kids and grandkids. So I salute him for his 

wonderful leadership in that area. . . . 

Mr. KERRY. Madam President, I thank the Senator from 

Iowa and I want to comment quickly before I yield the floor 

to the Senator from Minnesota. I also have a unanimous consent request. 

I heard the Senator pay appropriate tribute to Senator 

LUGAR for his accomplishments in terms of making the world 

safer. I say to my friend, without any question whatsoever 

in reserve that the accomplishment of the ADA is one of 

those singular moments in the career of any U.S. Senator 

and it made the world better here at home, and a lot of other 

places if we get this done. The Senator from Iowa helped set 

that gold standard, so I thank him for that and for the pleasure—there are only three of us left from our class, so it is 

good to stand up with him today, and I appreciate it enormously. . . . 

Mr. CARDIN. . . . I want to acknowledge the work of Senator LUGAR, who is on the floor. He has been a real champion on basic human rights issues and advancing it through 

treaties on which the United States has taken leadership. I 

applaud his unstinting commitment to advancing the rights 

of people with disabilities. . . . 

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THURSDAY, December 6, 2012 

Ms. COLLINS. Mr. President, in his 36 years of service in 

the Senate, RICHARD LUGAR has established a reputation as 

an extraordinary leader on such issues as foreign relations, 

national security, energy policy, agriculture, and economic 

growth. He is the Senate’s most senior Republican and the 

longest serving Member of Congress in Indiana’s history. 

Senator LUGAR has established a well-deserved reputation 

as a true statesman. At a time when the coarsening political 

discourse across our Nation and in Congress is a growing 

concern, DICK LUGAR is a shining example of civility and mutual respect we must regain if our Nation is to meet the 

challenges that lie ahead. 

Thirty-six years in the Senate is a part of DICK LUGAR’s 

long time of service. After attending Oxford University as a 

Rhodes scholar, DICK volunteered for the U.S. Navy in 1957, 

eventually serving as an intelligence briefer for the Chief of 

Naval Operations. As the two-term mayor of Indianapolis, 

beginning in 1968, he was a trailblazer in unifying local government, setting his city on a remarkable path of economic 

growth and prosperity as well as efficiency. As mayor, he 

served three terms on the U.S. Advisory Commission on 

Intergovernmental Relations and as president of the National League of Cities. It is evident DICK LUGAR always 

rises to the top of any organization because his colleagues 

recognize his extraordinary capability and his outstanding 

leadership. 

DICK’s life experiences and character have served the people of Indiana and our country so well. He has been the leader in reducing the threat of nuclear, chemical, and biological 

weapons. What better tribute or legacy could anyone leave 

the world than to reduce the inventory of these dangerous 

weapons. The bipartisan partnership he forged in 1991 to destroy these weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet 

Union has resulted in the deactivation of more than 7,600 

nuclear warheads that once were aimed at the United 

States. 

As chairman of the Agriculture Committee, DICK LUGAR

has led the way for reforming our Federal farm programs 

and has promoted research advancements and increased export opportunities that have generated higher net income for 

America’s family farms. Through the Lugar Energy Initiative, he has combined his foreign policy and agricultural expertise to promote policies to spur economic growth. 

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In the dark days following the attacks of September 11, 

2001, Senator LUGAR set forth a set of principles to guide our 

Nation in these difficult times. The Lugar doctrine calls upon 

the United States to ‘‘use all of its military, diplomatic and 

economic power—without question—to ensure that lifethreatening weapons of mass destruction everywhere are accounted, contained and hopefully destroyed.’’ 

In addition, the Lugar doctrine asserts that America 

should encourage democratic institutions and decrease reliance on foreign energy sources. 

These accomplishments, and so many more, stem from a 

profound intellect combined with character. There is nothing 

I love more than to hear DICK LUGAR give a tutorial on any 

country in the world, and he can talk knowledgeably and 

teach us about any country in the world. That is the depth 

of his experience, his knowledge, and his expertise. 

DICK has also always been a voice of reason in the Senate. 

No matter how bitter the debate, he has always stood by his 

values and engaged in thoughtful discussions that result in 

solutions. That is why his advice has so often been sought 

by Presidents, military leaders, Cabinet secretaries, Governors, and so many of his colleagues, including me. 

As DICK LUGAR returns to the private life he left behind 

so many years ago, his advice will continue to be sought 

after and I hope heeded. His knowledge and insight will still 

be valued, and the example of his decency and civility he has 

set throughout his life should guide us all. The people of Indiana and America are grateful for his service, and I am so 

grateful for his friendship and guidance over the years we 

have served together. 

TUESDAY, December 11, 2012 

Mr. MCCONNELL. Mr. President, as we enter the final 

weeks of the 112th Congress, one of the toughest tasks for 

me is saying goodbye to colleagues who will not be with us 

at the start of the next Congress. 

I would like to kick it off this morning by spending just a 

few minutes bragging on my longtime friend and neighbor to 

the north, Senator DICK LUGAR. 

Let me start by saying I am grateful to have served alongside this good man and to have had a front-row seat for 

much of his illustrious career. 

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To give an idea of the kind of career DICK LUGAR has had, 

consider this: He was an Eagle Scout, first in his class in 

high school, first in his class in college, a Rhodes scholar, 

Naval intelligence briefer, corporate turnaround artist, and 

big city mayor. That was all by the age of 35. He has excelled at everything he has ever done. Most incredibly, he 

has done it with perfectly smooth elbows. Walk into any office on Capitol Hill and you would not find a single person 

who would say a bad word about DICK LUGAR. He has 

earned the respect and admiration of everyone who ever 

crossed his path. I assure you, in the world of politics, that 

is nothing short of a miracle. Now DICK has decided to press 

his luck. He is moving into the only line of work where rivalries are even more vicious than in politics—he is becoming 

a college professor. 

DICK and I go all the way back to my first Senate race in 

1984. He was the head of the NRSC at the time. He took a 

chance on me, and I have always been grateful. He has been 

a friend ever since. 

A lot of Hoosiers cross the Ohio River every day to work 

in Kentucky, but it is not often a Hoosier Senator crosses it 

to help a Kentuckian making his first bid for the Senate. 

Since we are from neighboring States, our work in the Senate has often overlapped over the years. I truly lucked out. 

DICK has always been helpful and cooperative and a perfect 

gentleman. 

With his six terms in the Senate, Senator LUGAR is the 

longest serving Member of Congress in Indiana history. He 

ranks 10th on the list of Senators who have cast the most 

rollcall votes. 

As the longtime chair or ranking member on the Foreign 

Relations Committee, he has become one of America’s most 

respected voices on matters pertaining to foreign policy. Indeed, Senator LUGAR commands the highest respect not only 

from his peers in the Senate but around the world, for his 

deep knowledge of foreign policy, national security, agriculture, and trade. 

To a lot of liberals, he is a walking contradiction: a Republican intellectual. He has always worn that reputation lightly. Anyone who has ever been on a codel with DICK has seen 

his method. He stuffs his carry-on to the point of bursting 

with memos, newspapers, magazines, journals, reports, survey data, you name it. Apparently, Trent Lott sat next to 

him on the plane once and was horrified at the way he tore 

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out the pages and scribbled notes on them. We all know 

Trent would never be so indelicate. 

Senator LUGAR has always had a global view. It started 

during his days as a Rhodes scholar and an intelligence 

briefer in the Navy and he brought that global view back to 

Indiana. After the untimely death of his dad, DICK and his 

brother took over the family business and reinvented it from 

a struggling domestic operation to a global leader in the 

manufacture of baking machinery. 

He went from success to success, moving from a seat on 

the Indianapolis school board into the mayor’s office, and 

then, in 1996, on to the Senate. What a Senate career it has 

been. 

For my part, I think Senator LUGAR’s achievement in passing the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threats Reduction Program 

in 1991 was a great achievement, not just for himself but for 

the entire world. 

The Nunn-Lugar program provides assistance to former 

Soviet states such as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and 

Belarus in helping them dismantle and destroy their nuclear, 

chemical, and biological weapons, in order to prevent them 

from coming under the control of terrorists. 

As of 2011, Nunn-Lugar has deactivated over 7,600 strategic warheads, 791 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 669 

submarine-launched ballistic missiles, 32 nuclear submarines, and 194 nuclear test tunnels. It has neutralized 

1,395 metric tons of chemical weapons, and it has certified 

that the countries of the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and 

Belarus—which once held the third, fourth, and eighth largest nuclear arsenals in the world, respectively—are now 

nuclear-free. What an incredible legacy. 

After the 9/11 attacks, Senator LUGAR called for and 

helped pass the expansion of the Nunn-Lugar approach, resulting in the Global Threat Reduction Initiative, which aims 

to prevent chemical and biological weapons from falling into 

the hands of terrorists. He has been a leader in Congress on 

the issue of ensuring food safety and supply internationally 

for years. 

It is the mark of a leader that he thinks not only of his 

own moment in time but of the future of his community and 

of his fellow man, here and around the world. I think it is 

safe to say few Senators embody that spirit as fully as Senator LUGAR. That is not just my opinion. For his work to 

make the world a safer place, Senator LUGAR has been justly 

nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. 

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Senator LUGAR was first elected to the Senate in 1976 and 

has served for six terms. He is beloved in his home State of 

Indiana and in bordering Kentucky too. There is not only a 

lot of admiration but a lot of affection for this giant of the 

Senate just south of Hoosier territory. 

Senator LUGAR has put his extraordinary talent to the 

service of this institution and his fellow countrymen, and I 

have no doubt he will be remembered as one of the best. 

Senator LUGAR would probably tell us his greatest achievement was marrying Char. They have been married now for 

more than 50 years. They are proud of their 4 sons and their 

13 grandchildren, and they can be proud of the great teamwork they have had together over the years, from their time 

as copresidents of their senior class at Denison University. 

Char and the boys were involved in all his campaigns. The 

Senate family is sad to see them go as well. 

Senator, you are a treasure to the Senate and a model of 

the public servant. We are sorry to see you go, and I am 

sorry to lose your wise counsel. I know that whatever you 

turn to next, you will be a great success, and I look forward 

to hearing all about it. Thank you for your tremendous service to this body, to the State of Indiana, and to the Nation. 

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, let me first echo the comments of the Republican leader, Senator McConnell, about 

our colleague and friend, Senator DICK LUGAR of Indiana. 

It has been my good fortune now for some 16 years to 

serve in the Senate with Senator DICK LUGAR and to come 

to know him and his wife Char and, more important, to come 

to know their work together on behalf of Indiana and the 

United States. DICK LUGAR is truly a giant in the Senate. 

We are going to miss him. There aren’t many with the vision 

of DICK LUGAR. 

There is something about standing in the middle of this 

country, Adlai Stevenson II once noted, with the flatlands all 

around you that gives you a perspective on the world a little 

different. DICK LUGAR’s perspective on the world has been so 

insightful and so important for decades. 

His work with Senator Nunn in dealing with the proliferation of nuclear weaponry and the dissolution of the Soviet 

Union was truly historic and may have saved the world from 

catastrophe time and again. He reached out to a young Senator from Illinois by the name of Barack Obama and took 

him on a congressional delegation tour to look into this issue. 

I think at the end of the day their friendship was solid, and 

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President Obama notes it was one of the more important 

overseas visits he made as a Member of the Senate. 

I know DICK LUGAR as well from the many times we came 

together with our wives at the Aspen Institute. It is truly 

unfortunate that there aren’t more Senators participating in 

the Aspen Institute. It is a meeting, usually overseas, of 

Members of the Senate and their spouses with experts to discuss some of the most important problems facing us in this 

world. No lobbyists are allowed to attend; it is truly 2 or 3 

days of work. It is also a time in the evening to sit together 

and come to know a family. Loretta and I have come to know 

Char and DICK LUGAR as exceptional people. Char and I 

would sit and talk about books—which she loves to read and 

I do too—and DICK and I would talk about the topic of the 

day, and we created a bond of friendship in those experiences. 

He has done so much work in the Senate, as Senator 

McConnell noted, starting as the mayor of Indianapolis and 

working his way up to the Senate. He became a powerful 

force in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and I was 

honored to serve on that committee over the last several 

years and watch his work unfold and evolve. 

DICK LUGAR is going on to great things, I am sure. This 

is not the end of his service to our country. I wish him and 

Char the very best, whatever their next undertaking may be. 

As you receive praise from the Senator from Kentucky to 

the south of Indiana, accept some from the Senator from 

west of Indiana in the State of Illinois. I am honored to 

count DICK LUGAR as a friend, and I am sure going to miss 

you. You have been an extraordinary ally and colleague on 

so many important issues. 

Mr. ISAKSON. I would like to turn to RICHARD LUGAR

from Indiana. RICHARD LUGAR is one of those rare people 

who are referred to as an institution, and he is truly an institution: Six terms in 36 years in the Senate, a candidate 

for President of the United States in the Republican primary 

a number of years ago, a bipartisan man who worked with 

then-chairman of the Armed Services Committee Sam Nunn 

to put together the Nunn-Lugar agreement, which is allowing us to tear apart nuclear warheads, reprocess those nuclear warheads, tear down nuclear missiles and ballistic missile launchers, and have a safer world. The reason there is 

not a terrorist attack using nuclear fission materials today 

so far is probably more because of DICK LUGAR and Sam 

Nunn than any two individuals in the United States. 

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DICK LUGAR is a man I admire greatly. When I came here, 

I hoped one day I could work on the Foreign Relations Committee so I would have the opportunity to work with DICK

LUGAR. That opportunity took place, and the Presiding Officer and I have served together with DICK LUGAR for 4 years. 

I watched DICK LUGAR during tough times, during happy 

times, during good times, and during challenging times. He 

is always even. He has always got an even keel. His rudder 

is in the water. He knows where he wants to take the committee, but he doesn’t drive it, he leads it. 

One of the great negotiators of our time, one of the great 

men of our time in terms of foreign relations, DICK LUGAR

is the man who has meant more to our country than anybody 

I can possibly think of today, and he has a legacy of supporting the State of Indiana in any way he possibly could, 

from the school board, to mayor of Indianapolis, to U.S. Senator, to a great lecturer and leader on the national and international stage. We will miss DICK LUGAR very much, and I 

am sure he will miss us, but I hope all of us will remember 

and learn that he taught us about a steady hand, good diplomacy, and the importance of diplomacy over guns any day of 

the week. 

WEDNESDAY, December 12, 2012 

Mr. COATS. Mr. President, I rise today to honor the service of Senator RICHARD LUGAR and to pay tribute to his legacy. I served alongside Senator LUGAR as the junior Senator 

of Indiana during my two tours of service in the Senate. All 

of us who seek public service want to make a difference, and 

most certainly Senator LUGAR has done that. 

At an early age DICK LUGAR developed a passion for 

knowledge. A native of Indianapolis, he was valedictorian at 

Shortridge High School. It was then and is still a distinguished institution where knowledge is at the forefront of everything done in that school. One of our former Members, 

Ted Stevens, was also a graduate of Shortridge High School. 

DICK LUGAR then went on to become valedictorian in college when he graduated from Denison University with a 

bachelor’s degree in economics. He went on to attend Pembroke College at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and 

obtained a second bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in 

politics, philosophy, and economics. Today he is one of the 

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most decorated scholars in the Senate with 46 honorary degrees from 15 States and the District of Columbia. 

Following these most impressive academic achievements, 

Senator LUGAR spent several years in the U.S. Navy ultimately serving as an intelligence briefer for ADM Arleigh 

Burke, Chief of Naval Operations. The Navy and Admiral 

Burke chose the best person they could for that particular 

job. DICK LUGAR quickly became well known for not only his 

hard work but his leadership ability and his intellectual 

prowess. Senator LUGAR then returned to Indiana where at 

the young age of 35 he became the mayor of Indianapolis, 

serving two terms from 1968 to 1975. There is no question 

that DICK LUGAR is recognized as one of the most influential 

and visionary mayors Indiana has ever seen, and maybe the 

country has ever seen. 

Having just left military service myself, I was working full 

time attending Indiana Law School at night. That didn’t 

leave much time for Marsha and me to enjoy the amenities 

of Indianapolis but, frankly, there were very few amenities 

to enjoy at that particular time. It was then that our newly 

elected mayor began a remarkable transformation of Indianapolis into what has now become one of the most attractive 

and livable cities in America. 

As mayor, DICK LUGAR worked carefully with the Indiana 

General Assembly and then-Governor Ed Whitcomb to extend the boundaries of the city and merge the governments 

of Indianapolis and Marion County to provide common essential services more efficiently—a concept then called Unigov. 

Unigov wasn’t without controversy, but because of DICK

LUGAR’s vision, careful negotiations, and decisive action, Indianapolis became a model for other cities across the Nation. 

When the law took effect in 1970, Indianapolis’ population 

rose from 476,000 to 793,000. Indianapolis moved from the 

26th largest city to one of the Nation’s largest dozen cities 

literally overnight. When I think of the numerous positive 

changes in Indianapolis over the past 40 years, I see the fulfillment of the vision of then-Mayor DICK LUGAR. 

The Midwest has a way of producing men and women of 

sense and decency. However, not all of us fall into that category. Sometimes that sense is questioned, but we do have 

individuals who have the ability to see to the heart of the 

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gression that following his success as mayor, DICK LUGAR’s 

next job would be serving Hoosiers as a U.S. Senator. 

Since 1977, Senator LUGAR has represented Hoosiers and 

served our Nation admirably. Without question, Senator 

LUGAR is the type of lawmaker and leader who works hard 

to bring both parties together, find common ground, and pass 

needed legislation. Although his contributions are many—including his long and valued service on the Senate Agriculture Committee—Senator LUGAR’s most important role in 

the Senate has to be his leadership on the Senate Foreign 

Relations Committee. As a two-time chairman of this committee, he has been one of the most influential minds on foreign policy in the Senate’s history. He has worked tirelessly 

on policies and legislation to promote arms control, control 

and dismantle nuclear arms, and to address the global food 

crisis. 

Among his many accomplishments in the field of foreign 

relations, his signature piece of legislation, no doubt, is the 

Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, more commonly 

known as Nunn-Lugar. When Senator LUGAR joined the Foreign Relations Committee in 1979, he traveled to the former 

Soviet Union on multiple occasions to gain a better understanding of how the United States could secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction. 

His experiences led him to champion the landmark legislation that successfully resulted in the deactivation of nuclear 

warheads, making this world a safer place. To date, the 

Nunn-Lugar Program has deactivated more than 7,600 nuclear warheads that were once aimed at the United States. 

It is a contribution to which Americans can never give 

enough thanks. 

Over his 36 years in this institution, Senators from both 

sides of the aisle have considered DICK LUGAR a trusted resource when it comes to foreign policy and many other important issues. He has been a consistent resource for those 

who seek thoughtful answers to difficult political questions. 

When I first arrived here in 1989, Senator LUGAR and I 

operated a unique joint office arrangement in Indiana. We 

shared office space and staff in our State. Many of our colleagues were surprised by this arrangement, but DICK

LUGAR and I like to tell Hoosiers that they are getting twice 

the service for half the price. All those who work in this 

Chamber can learn from DICK LUGAR’s passion for public 

service. His sincere desire to reach across the aisle and find 

common ground complements his unique talent for forging 

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coalitions and bringing people together to accomplish big 

things. 

A tribute to Senator LUGAR would be incomplete without 

recognizing the support of his wife Charlene, his four sons, 

and his extended family. Public service places unique demands on our families, and their sacrifice and support plays 

an important role in any Senator’s success. 

It has been an honor for me to work with Senator LUGAR. 

I am thankful for his service to Indiana and to our country. 

My wife Marsha and I wish Senator LUGAR, Char, and his 

family nothing but the best as my dear friend begins this 

next chapter of his life. Senator LUGAR has dedicated so 

much of his service to our country. He has outlined many 

other ways in which he will be continuing to do that and 

that is a great benefit to our Nation and to our State. I am 

certain we will continue to learn and benefit from the Senator’s lifetime of public service. 

I know my colleagues join me in thanking Senator LUGAR

for his many years of dedicated and distinguished service. It 

has been a pleasure to serve as a junior Senator from Indiana under the Senator’s leadership. 

With that, I yield the floor. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota. 

Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, let me add my words of commendation to those of Senator Coats for Senator LUGAR. I 

have often joked with him that he has been my Secretary of 

State while I have served here in the Senate. We could count 

on Senator LUGAR to give good, unbiased advice on complicated foreign relations issues, and we will very much miss 

Senator LUGAR’s voice here in the Senate, and also his better 

half, Char Lugar, who I think we all know is a bright light. 

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve with Senator 

LUGAR, and I know his voice will continue to be heard on the 

important issues of the day. 

In both Indiana and North Dakota, agriculture is a pillar 

of the economy. Senator LUGAR fully understands the importance of farming, and it has always been near his heart. He 

still manages a 600-acre corn, soybean, and tree operation 

back home. Here in the Senate, he has been a champion for 

his State’s farmers, serving on the Agriculture Committee 

since his first term. I have worked with him as a member 

of that committee since I joined the Senate a decade later. 

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He twice served as chairman, most notably during the passage of the 1996 farm bill. 

I had the privilege to work with Senator LUGAR in crafting 

numerous farm bills. During the Agriculture Committee’s debate of the last farm bill, Senator LUGAR and I teamed up 

to fund rural energy programs. We both understand the importance of getting more energy from the Midwest instead of 

the Middle East. Rather than sending our dollars outside of 

the country to buy oil, we can invest in renewable energy 

that is produced at home. Without DICK’s support, the Senate’s version of the farm bill would have lacked these important provisions. 

When the history books are written about our era, Senator 

LUGAR will be remembered as one of the Senate’s leading 

voices on foreign policy. A proven leader, DICK has been recognized by his colleagues for his clear-eyed analysis and 

practical solutions to global problems. His expertise has been 

invaluable to the Senate, whether it was regarding the 

threats of the Soviet Union during the cold war or Islamic 

terrorism today. One of Senator LUGAR’s brightest achievements was the creation of the Cooperative Threat Reduction 

Program, commonly known as Nunn-Lugar. Through this 

program, the United States helps partner countries destroy 

and secure weapons of mass destruction. It has deactivated 

over 7,600 nuclear warheads that once threatened our Nation. Our world is undoubtedly a safer place because of Senator LUGAR’s unwavering commitment to secure nuclear material. 

DICK has been one of the most pragmatic Members of the 

Senate. He understood that compromising with others does 

not mean betraying one’s beliefs. He was willing to work 

with Members on both sides of the aisle to achieve sensible 

solutions to our Nation’s problems. At a time when our country desperately needs to set aside inflexible partisan rigidity 

in order to advance the common good, Senator LUGAR will be 

greatly missed. 

I thank Senator LUGAR for his service in the Senate, to his 

State and the country. I thank him for being a friend to me, 

and I wish him and his family the very best in the future. 

Ms. MIKULSKI. Madam President, I rise to comment 

about some wonderful men in the Senate who are retiring on 

both sides of the aisle. Earlier today I spoke about my deep 

affection and sorry-to-see-go friends Olympia Snowe and Kay 

Bailey Hutchison, but I want to rise as the dean of the 

women in the Senate to say some very special words about 

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very special men on both sides of the aisle. Because when I 

came to the Senate, it was only Nancy Kassebaum and me, 

and yet we worked on so many issues together. There are 

really wonderful men here who supported me, supported our 

issues, but really stood up for those States and their communities. . . . 

I also wish to pay tribute to someone on the other side of 

the aisle, my very good friend and someone I admire tremendously, Senator DICK LUGAR from Indiana. Who does not admire Senator LUGAR, a gentleman, a scholar, I might even 

add a Rhodes scholar, a definite advocate for Indiana, an incredible leader on foreign policy. 

I am so proud of him and the work he did and the way 

he reached across the aisle to work with our colleague Senator Sam Nunn on their famous Nunn-Lugar Cooperative 

Threat Reduction Program. They truly worked together to 

begin to end the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the 

former Soviet Union and made the world a better and safer 

place. 

We want to wish Senator LUGAR a fond farewell and let 

him know he will be deeply missed. I certainly will miss him. 

I valued his thought, his counsel, his observations, particularly in the area of foreign policy. He taught me a little bit 

about foreign policy too. . . . 

I wanted to be sure that the day would not end without 

my acknowledging these wonderful people who have given a 

big part of their lives to making this country a better place. 

I want to, in the most heartfelt way—I am so sorry we did 

not have a bipartisan dinner or party to be able to express 

this. I would have liked to have been in the same room, 

breaking bread with them, in order to be able to tell them 

how much we appreciate them, across party lines, across 

those lines that ordinarily divide us. They came from different parts of the country, they arrived in the Senate with 

different objectives, they will leave under different circumstances. But I want to again let them know that each 

and every one of them had a positive impact on me and I 

think a wonderful impact on the future of this country. So 

I wish them well. God bless and Godspeed. 

THURSDAY, December 13, 2012 

Mr. HARKIN. In these closing weeks of the 112th Congress, the Senate is saying farewell to a number of retiring 

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colleagues. One of our most poignant farewells is to a Member respected and esteemed on both sides of the aisle. I 

speak of Senator DICK LUGAR of Indiana. 

He is a friend, a fellow Midwesterner. But to all of us, he 

is much more. DICK LUGAR is truly a Senator’s Senator. He 

epitomizes the very best in this institution, and it is a sad 

commentary on the state of our Nation’s politics that the 

main reason why Senator LUGAR is leaving the Senate is because his primary opponent attacked him for the very qualities we admire and need here: his readiness to forge fair and 

honorable compromises, his insistence on putting country 

ahead of party or ideology, his enormous decency and civility. 

As we all know, Senator LUGAR has been the Senate’s 

most passionate and effective advocate of arms control and 

nuclear nonproliferation. The program he created with 

former Senator Sam Nunn has assisted Russia and other 

countries of the former Soviet Union to secure and dispose 

of their weapons of mass destruction. What an amazing accomplishment by Senator LUGAR. I also want to salute Senator LUGAR’s record of principled, conscientious leadership on 

the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, including as chairman from 1995 to 2001. 

He is a key author of landmark measures strengthening 

Federal agricultural conservation policies and programs, particularly in the 1985 farm bill and succeeding farm bills. 

He has been instrumental in strengthening—and in fighting for at critical junctures—Federal nutrition assistance, including school lunch, breakfast, and other child nutrition 

programs through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program and through support for food banks and other 

emergency food assistance. DICK LUGAR has also been an 

outstanding leader in enacting Federal initiatives to research, develop, and market farm and forest commodities by 

converting them to energy and bio-based products. 

For me, it has been a great honor to be Senator LUGAR’s 

friend and colleague for 36 years and to serve all of that time 

with him on the Agriculture Committee. Our friendship, of 

course, will continue, but I will miss, as we all will, Senator 

LUGAR’s calm, positive, always constructive influence on this 

body. Across 36 years of distinguished service, this Senator 

and statesman has faithfully served the people of Indiana 

and the United States. There is no doubt that he will pursue 

new avenues of public service in retirement. 

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So I will miss his day-to-day friendship and his counsel in 

the Senate. I wish DICK and his wonderful wife Char all the 

best in the years ahead. 

TUESDAY, December 18, 2012 

Mr. LEVIN. Madam President, the Senate has traditionally been seen as a moderating force in American politics, as 

a place where partisan interests give way to practical problem solving, and where men and women of good will could, 

while they might often disagree and debate, find agreement 

on the challenges our Nation must face. 

RICHARD LUGAR has, for more than 30 years, upheld that 

Senate tradition. All of us, regardless of party, have great respect for his intelligence, his integrity, and his concern for 

the good of our country. 

We have worked together on many matters. Manufacturing is a vital sector in the economies of both our States, 

and Senator LUGAR has been a strong supporter of Federal 

programs that benefit manufacturing, including the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, which helps U.S. manufacturers research and develop new technologies, increase efficiency, improve supply chains and out-innovate our overseas 

competitors. We have worked together on other issues of mutual interest to Indiana and Michigan, including preservation of the Great Lakes and strengthening America’s agricultural sector. 

These are important contributions. Senator LUGAR’s most 

lasting legacy, however, is likely to be his work protecting 

Americans, and people all over the world, from the threat of 

proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. As a Midwestern Senator, he has followed in the finest tradition of 

Arthur Vandenberg, a Republican Senator from Michigan 

who famously coined the concept that ‘‘politics stops at the 

water’s edge.’’ 

In 1991 Senator LUGAR joined with Senator Sam Nunn in 

a bipartisan effort to deal with a pressing national security 

challenge arising from a major national security success: the 

collapse of the Soviet Union. While the end of the cold war 

made the world a safer place, the splintering of a superpower 

meant the fearsome Soviet arsenal of nuclear and chemical 

weapons was now in the possession of 15 separate nations. 

Many worried, with good reason, that these newly independent nations, struggling in the aftermath of the Soviet 

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collapse, might be unable or unwilling to prevent the misuse 

or diversion of these weapons. 

The answer was the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, commonly known as Nunn-Lugar, and widely hailed 

as one of the smartest investments America has ever made 

in our security. Nunn-Lugar has eliminated more than 7,600 

former Soviet nuclear warheads, and nearly 2,500 nuclearcapable missiles. It has secured two dozen nuclear weapon 

storage sites, and significantly strengthened controls over remaining weapons of mass destruction, WMD, and their deadly materials. As the WMD proliferation challenge has 

evolved, Senator LUGAR has worked hard to ensure that 

Nunn-Lugar has adapted to meet that challenge, in new regions such as Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. It has been 

an integral part of our national security strategy ever since 

the end of the cold war, making our Nation more secure, 

keeping us safe. 

This is a legacy of which any Senator would be justifiably 

proud, and it is one on which Senator LUGAR has continued 

to build. We saw the value of his leadership as the Senate 

debated and passed the New START Treaty, and we’ve seen 

it in the countless instances when Senator LUGAR has advocated for and helped the Senate approve international agreements that have made our Nation, our allies, and our planet 

a safer place. 

The Senate will miss RICHARD LUGAR’s leadership. I hope 

that each of us who will return to the Senate in the new year 

can keep in mind his legacy of bipartisan leadership and 

practical problem solving as we confront our Nation’s challenges. 

THURSDAY, December 20, 2012 

Mr. REED. Madam President, at this time, I wish to take 

a few minutes to salute my colleagues who are retiring at 

the end of this year with the conclusion of the 112th Congress: Daniel Akaka of Hawaii, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Kent Conrad of North 

Dakota, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Kay Bailey 

Hutchison of Texas, Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, Jon Kyl of Arizona, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, RICHARD LUGAR of 

Indiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Olympia Snowe of Maine, 

and Jim Webb of Virginia. They have all worked ceaselessly 

to give their constituents the best representation and give 

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the country the benefit of their views, their wisdom, and 

their experience. They are men and women who are committed to the Nation, and they have every day in different 

ways contributed to this Senate and to our great country. 

I wish to thank them personally for their service, and, in 

so many cases, their personal kindness to me; for listening 

to my points and for, together, hopefully, serving this Senate 

and this Nation in a more positive and progressive way. 

In particular, let me say a few words about some of the 

Members with whom I have had the privilege to work more 

closely. . . . 

RICHARD LUGAR is one of the most decent and thoughtful 

individuals ever to serve in this body. We will miss his wisdom and his voice, particularly on nuclear nonproliferation 

and arms control. I am also pleased to have joined him on 

so many other issues, and he leaves an extraordinary mark 

on this institution. . . . 

I could go on with all of my colleagues, just thanking them 

for their friendship, for their camaraderie, and for their commitment to the Nation and the Senate. As they depart, they 

have left an extraordinary legacy. Now it is our responsibility to carry on in so many different ways, and I hope we 

measure up to what they have done. If we do, then we can 

go forward confidently. 

Mr. COONS. . . . There are so many other Senators I want 

to speak about today [besides Daniel Inouye], but let me turn 

to a few, if I might, and give some insight for the folks who 

only see Members of this Chamber on cable TV shows or in 

the give-and-take of election season or who only know them 

as the cutout and caricatures that the public thinks of as 

Senators. If there is a common thread between them, it is 

that they share that loyalty, work ethic, and humility that 

so characterized Senator Inouye in his decades here. 

I had the honor to serve with Senator DICK LUGAR of Indiana on the Foreign Relations Committee. Over the 35 years 

he served in the Senate, he applied the practical perspective 

that experience as the mayor of Indianapolis gave him. He 

worked to make the world a safer place for all of us. 

Along with 12 of our colleagues, Senator LUGAR will retire 

from this Chamber this month after a remarkable career. He 

knew the stakes were too high to let partisan politics and 

personality prevent progress. He partnered with Senator 

John Kerry, Senator Sam Nunn, and then-Senator Joe Biden 

of Delaware on the Foreign Relations Committee. Because of 

their work together, there are thousands fewer nuclear 

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weapons in our world. Serving with DICK LUGAR these last 

2 years has been a tremendous honor. . . . 

So here we are, 5 days before my family celebrates Christmas and 12 days before the new year and the beginning of 

the so-called fiscal cliff. Our politics have paralyzed this 

Chamber and this town. But what the example of all of these 

remarkable Senators has shown us, what it has taught me 

is that we can still be better than our politics. 

The humanity of this place, too often shoved aside by the 

politics of the moment, shows us that we can do better. One 

by one, these Senators, in delivering their farewell addresses 

to this Chamber, stood at their desks and each in turn urged 

us to find a way to return to the days when Senators knew 

each other and worked together. What will it take to get us 

to that point again—a horrific tragedy in an elementary 

school, a dangerous economic cliff, some devastating attack, 

a cyberassault on America? 

Our retiring colleagues are each telling us, each in turn, 

that it is not too late to restore the humanity of this Chamber and make a positive difference in the lives of all we 

serve. Will we heed their call? I hope and pray we will because we can do better. We must do better. And in the spirit 

of each of these departing colleagues, I will do my level best. 

I hope we all can commit to doing the same. 

FRIDAY, December 21, 2012 

Mr. ENZI. Mr. President, at the end of each Congress the 

Senate has a custom of taking a moment to express our appreciation to those Members who will be returning home 

when the gavel brings the current session to a close. This 

tradition provides us with an opportunity to acknowledge 

each Senator’s efforts and take note of the difference they 

have made both back home and here in Washington, DC. 

One Senator I know I will miss in the months to come is 

Senator RICHARD LUGAR. He has had a great influence on 

my service here in the Senate. During his six terms of service in the Senate, I know I’m not the only one who learned 

a great deal from him about how to be the kind of legislator 

who gets results. 

I was fortunate to have had Senator LUGAR reach out to 

serve as a mentor to me. When I first arrived, my experience 

in the Wyoming State Legislature had taught me to enter 

the legislative battles slowly, taking the time to learn from 

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the seasoned veterans how to be an effective advocate for my 

home State and the people back home. Senator LUGAR

proved to be a good choice for me to observe as I tried to pick 

up on his way of doing things on the floor and in his committee. 

I soon learned that Senator LUGAR had a style all his own. 

His quiet and calm demeanor in his dealings with other 

Members and the thoughtful presentations he made on the 

Senate floor made it clear that he always had a strategy in 

mind as we took up those issues that meant a great deal to 

him. 

I shouldn’t have been surprised he had such a good understanding of the right way to do things here. It’s an indication 

of one of his great achievements—he’s a fellow Eagle Scout. 

That great training he received in his younger days never 

left him. His years in the Boy Scouts prepared him for the 

challenges he had taken on over the years and it taught him 

the importance of teamwork—bipartisan teamwork—in taking on the issues that were of such great concern to the people of his State. His experience with the Scouts taught him 

a great deal about life and the importance of holding on to 

the principles and values that helped to make him a leader 

back home and here in the Senate. 

Another aspect of our lives that we have in common is our 

service as mayor. There are few jobs quite as difficult as 

that, and I have a great deal of respect for anyone who takes 

on that challenge. I served as mayor of Gillette, WY, during 

a difficult time in its history. Senator LUGAR served as 

mayor of Indianapolis. He brought quite a few good proposals with him and that helped to make it possible for him 

to do some pretty remarkable things. One accomplishment 

that stands out was his consolidation of the city and the surrounding county. That helped to make the government work 

better for the people of the area. His proposals received a 

great deal of attention and that got his administration noticed. It soon led him to bring his unique brand of leadership 

to the National League of Cities, where he served as its 

president. 

After such a string of successes, it was only natural that 

he then bring his vision for the future of our Nation to the 

U.S. Senate. For six terms he has been a strong voice for the 

people of his home State on a long list of issues that were 

of great concern to them. He has been a leader in both the 

areas of foreign affairs and agriculture. He has been a great 

friend of rural America as he has worked to ensure that the 

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programs and policies that work so well in urban areas also 

benefit rural States and communities like those in his home 

State and mine. He has compiled a legacy during his service 

in the Senate that should make him very proud. 

Now Senator LUGAR will be returning to his beloved home 

State. Those are his roots and it represents the kind of experiences that helped to form him over the years. It was a life 

that made him what he is today—strong, independent, and 

committed to doing what is right. 

Now that this chapter of Senator LUGAR’s life has come to 

a close, another will soon begin. That is just as it should be. 

We will miss his leadership on a long list of issues. I hope 

we continue to hear from him with his thoughtful ideas on 

the direction we need to follow to turn our economy around. 

I know I join with our colleagues in thanking Senator 

LUGAR for his service, for the leadership he has provided on 

more issues than I could ever list in this short reflection on 

his many years in the Senate, and most of all, for his friendship. That was a great gift that meant a great deal to us all. 

THURSDAY, December 27, 2012 

Mr. LEAHY. Mr. President, I have served with hundreds 

of Senators in my nearly 38 years representing Vermont in 

Washington. Few embody the statesmanship that you find in 

Senator RICHARD LUGAR. For more than 36 years, Senator 

LUGAR has represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. Senate—the longest serving Republican Senator here today. It 

has been an honor, a privilege, and a joy to work with him 

to advance so many important legislative issues. 

Senator LUGAR exemplifies the ideal of bipartisanship that 

is too often lacking today in Washington. Although we come 

from different political views, Senator LUGAR and I worked 

shoulder to shoulder to reach across the aisle to find compromise and common ground on two farm bills—the LeahyLugar bill, and the Lugar-Leahy bill. That collaborative effort, which led to reforms at the Department of Agriculture 

resulting in the savings of billions of dollars, is an example 

of how well the Senate can function when bipartisanship is 

the order of business. Whether he chaired the Agriculture 

Committee, or I did, we always found a way to work together. 

Perhaps Senator LUGAR is most well known for yet another bipartisan effort, the 1991 Nunn-Lugar Cooperative 

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Threat Reduction. Nunn-Lugar was enacted to protect Americans from the threat of nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union. Ever since it became law, Senator LUGAR has 

continued his efforts to reduce the threat of nuclear annihilation. In 2007, after a trip to Russia, Azerbaijan, and 

Ukraine, Senator LUGAR and then-Senator Barack Obama 

crafted the Lugar-Obama Proliferation and Threat Reduction 

Initiative to decrease the number of hidden traditional weapons around the world. Senator LUGAR’s ability to build 

strong relationships with party opposites such as President 

Obama resulted in legislation that benefits citizens of Indiana, but also the entire Nation. 

As a leading member and former chairman of the Senate 

Foreign Relations Committee, Senator LUGAR has championed human rights around the world. Most recently he advocated aggressively for ratification of the bipartisan Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A recognized leader in international affairs, Senator LUGAR has supported causes from eradicating hunger, to combating terrorism wherever it occurs. He has promoted sound, reasonable immigration reforms to encourage the best and brightest to come to America. And he has warned of the catastrophic risks of climate change. 

Earlier this year, Senator LUGAR and I reached a pair of 

milestones together. I was honored to cast my 14,000th vote 

in the U.S. Senate. I was delighted that Senator LUGAR, on 

the same vote, reached the 13,000 marker. Ours has been a 

partnership of more than three decades, and to share this 

milestone with Senator LUGAR was a memory I will cherish. 

A couple of years ago, DICK and I found ourselves sitting 

down together in the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing 

Room, speaking with a reporter about the importance of bipartisanship in Congress. We both recalled with fondness 

our earliest days in the Senate, sitting on the farthest ends 

of the dais, and struggling to hear what the most senior 

members of the panel were saying. We suspected—no doubt 

correctly—that this was not happening by accident. From 

those days sitting together was born a friendship that has 

spanned three decades. In his farewell in this Chamber, Senator LUGAR cautioned that many in Congress ‘‘have not lived 

up to the expectations of our constituents to make excellence 

in governance our top priority.’’ Every day in this Chamber, 

DICK LUGAR made excellence his top priority. He is a pillar 

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of the Senate, a mentor to many, and a role model to those 

to come. I will miss my friend. 

FRIDAY, December 28, 2012 

Mr. CARDIN. Mr. President, I would like to pay tribute to 

the Senators who will not be returning when the 113th Congress commences next month. I have already spoken about 

Senator Kyl and about Senator Inouye, one of the truly great 

Americans and giants of this institution. At the time of his 

death, Senator Inouye was just a few weeks short of celebrating 50 years of Senate service. Only Senator Byrd served 

in this institution longer. 

Turnover is a natural occurrence, but it’s important to 

acknowledge that the Senators who are departing have 

served in the Senate for a combined total of 237 years, or 

nearly 20 years per Senator, on average. Add Senator 

Inouye, and the total is close to 300 years. That service represents an enormous amount of expertise on issues ranging 

from national defense and foreign affairs to the Federal 

budget to energy policy. The departing Senators will also 

take with them vast institutional knowledge and bipartisan 

friendships and working relationships that will leave a void 

we will need to fill. . . . 

Mr. President, Senator RICHARD LUGAR isn’t just one of 

our leading Senators; he’s one of the Nation’s greatest statesmen over the past quarter century. We have been fortunate 

indeed to have Senator LUGAR at the helm of the Foreign Relations Committee, either as chairman or ranking member, 

for so many years. He is quite literally a gentleman and a 

scholar. After graduating first in his class from high school 

and from Denison University, he attended Pembroke College 

at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, where he earned a second 

bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in 1956. He served 

in the U.S. Navy from 1957 to 1960, earning the rank of lieutenant, junior grade. While he was in the Navy, he was an 

intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke. 

To this day, Senator LUGAR shows his fifth generation 

Hoosier roots, managing the family’s 600-acre corn, soybean, 

and tree farm. When he was just 35, he was elected mayor 

of Indianapolis and served two highly successful terms. He 

was elected president of the National League of Cities in 

1971. Senator LUGAR defeated incumbent Senator Vance 

Hartke in 1976 with 60 percent of the vote in a year when 

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the Democratic candidate for President, Jimmy Carter, won 

the election. Senator LUGAR was reelected five times. On 

three of those occasions, he received well over 60 percent of 

the vote. In 2006 he received over 87 percent of the vote 

while Democrats were recapturing control of Congress for 

the first time in 12 years. 

Before Senator LUGAR chaired the Foreign Relations Committee, he chaired the Agriculture Committee, during which 

time he authored the 1996 farm bill. He established a biofuels research program to help increase U.S. utilization of 

ethanol and combustion fuels and led initiatives to streamline the Department of Agriculture, reform the food stamp 

program, and preserve the Federal school lunch program. 

Over the course of his career, he has been deeply involved 

in food security issues, both domestically and around the 

globe. 

Senator LUGAR generally holds conservative economic 

views, but he supports President Obama’s DREAM Act and 

certain restrictions on gun ownership. He was the first Republican Senator to announce his support for President 

Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, U.S. Circuit Court of 

Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor. He also voted in favor of 

President Obama’s second Supreme Court nominee, Solicitor 

General Elena Kagan. I was proud and privileged to work 

with Senator LUGAR on an extractive industries transparency provision that we are able to include in the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. I 

have learned so much from Senator LUGAR serving on the 

Foreign Relations Committee. 

In a long career of dazzling accomplishments, Senator 

LUGAR has made his greatest mark with respect to foreign 

affairs. In 2006 Time magazine rated him as one of America’s 10 Best Senators in an article entitled ‘‘The Wise Man.’’ 

According to the article, Senator LUGAR’s ‘‘thinking has often 

proved to be ahead of the curve.’’ He pushed for democratic 

governments in the Philippines and South Africa and the development of alternative fuels to reduce our reliance on foreign supplies of oil in the 1980s. He has been influential in 

gaining Senate ratification of treaties to reduce the world’s 

use, production, and stockpiling of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. In 1991 he collaborated with then-Senator 

Sam Nunn, a Democrat from Georgia and chairman of the 

Armed Services Committee, to eliminate latent weapons of 

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activated more than 7,600 nuclear warheads. Three months 

after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United 

States, Senator LUGAR enunciated the Lugar Doctrine, which 

commits the United States to use ‘‘all of its military, diplomatic, and economic power—without question—to ensure 

that life-threatening weapons of mass destruction everywhere are accounted, contained, and destroyed’’ and which 

‘‘asserts that the United States should encourage democratic 

institutions and decrease dependence on foreign energy 

sources.’’ Few, if any, people have done more than Senator 

LUGAR over the past 36 years to ensure security, promote 

freedom and peace, and reduce the threat of war. 

In 2008 Senator LUGAR received the Paul H. Douglas Ethics in Government Award, which is awarded by the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs. 

He gave a profound speech on the nature of bipartisanship 

when he received that award. I think the speech perfectly exemplifies Senator LUGAR and his approach to governance, 

and I would exhort everyone to read it and take it to heart. 

This is part of what he said: 

Too often bipartisanship is misrepresented as the byproduct of moderate 

political views or the willingness to strike deals. We should be clear that 

bipartisanship is not centrism, and it is more than just compromise. It is 

a way of approaching one’s duties as a public servant that requires selfreflection. 

I believe this type of independent self reflection and discipline of thought 

is at the core of any politician’s attempt to be truly bipartisan. In today’s 

political environment, politicians are bombarded by demands from our respective parties and loyalist groups to adopt certain orthodox positions. To 

some extent this is a necessary element of a two-party system. But when 

positions are adopted purely on the basis of partisan advantage or strategic 

opposition to the other party, our system begins to break down. Some Members may genuinely agree with their party 50 percent of the time, others 

may genuinely agree with their party 99 percent of the time. The question 

is whether a politician arrives at those conclusions through honest reflection 

and careful study of the issue or whether they arrive there because they 

have adopted an ‘‘us-versus-them’’ mentality. Increasingly at all levels of 

American politics, capable leaders are succumbing to the temptation to put 

politics first. . . . 

Particularly destructive is the misperception in some quarters that governing with one vote more than 50 percent is just as good or better than 

governing with 60 or 70 percent support. Under this theory, the compromises necessary to achieve greater consensus among the American people and Congress merely dilutes the strength of one’s partisan accomplishments. 

The problem with this thinking is that whatever is won today through division is usually lost tomorrow. The relationships that are destroyed and the 

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uting to good legislation. A 51-percent mentality deepens cynicism, sharpens 

political vendettas, and depletes the national reserve of good will that is 

critical to our survival in hard times. Leaders should not content themselves 

with 51 percent if they can expand a working majority through outreach, 

judicious rhetoric, bipartisan alliances, and thoughtful argumentation. National unity is not simply a civic nicety; it counts in real policy terms. . . . 

Senator LUGAR concluded his speech by remarking that 

former Senator Paul Douglas’ life ‘‘provides us with an extraordinary example of what can be achieved through 

thoughtful dedication to public service.’’ The same can be 

said for Senator LUGAR. . . . 

Mr. President, these men and women who will be leaving 

the Senate soon have made extraordinary sacrifices to serve 

our Nation. We are fortunate that they have chosen to spend 

significant parts of their lives in public service. All Americans owe them a debt of gratitude. Those of us who will be 

in the Senate next month when the 113th Congress convenes 

can best honor the legacy of our departing colleagues by 

reaching across the aisle as they have done so many times 

to forge bipartisan consensus and solutions to our Nation’s 

most vexing problems. The men and women who will be leaving the Senate at the end of this Congress understand that 

compromise isn’t a dirty word; it is the genius at the heart 

of our political system. We will miss them. 

SUNDAY, December 30, 2012 

Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I rise today to speak on 

behalf of my friend and colleague Senator DICK LUGAR, who 

is retiring from the Senate at the end of this year. 

Senator LUGAR has been a good friend to me in the decade 

we have served together. As the Chamber’s most senior Republican he has been a mentor to me, and when I first came 

to the Senate he was also my chairman on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I have been proud to work with 

him on a number of foreign policy issues, including those affecting the United States like the Law of the Sea Treaty. We 

have also worked together on energy issues. Senator LUGAR’s 

Practical Energy Plan is a thoughtful bill to strengthen our 

energy security. On this bill, as on all other issues throughout his Senate career, Senator LUGAR worked to develop 

practical solutions to the challenges we face regarding energy. 

Senator LUGAR is the longest serving Member of Congress 

from Indiana. He graduated first in his class from Shortridge 

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High School in Indianapolis and after attending college, he 

began his service to our country as an intelligence briefer in 

the U.S. Navy. He later served as mayor of Indianapolis, on 

the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and as president of the National League of Cities before beginning his 36-year Senate career. 

He has clearly served the people of Indiana well. Just last 

month, the Indianapolis Monthly Magazine published ‘‘By 

the Numbers: RICHARD LUGAR’s Legacy,’’ which listed many 

of Senator LUGAR’s accomplishments. The article noted that 

Indianapolis gained 57,000 jobs during Senator LUGAR’s tenure as mayor and 7,600 nuclear warheads were deactivated 

as a result of the Nunn-Lugar Program. According to the article, Senator LUGAR has cast more than 13,000 votes in the 

Senate and worked with 7 different Presidents. He has been 

recognized for his service with the Guardian of Small Business Award, the Spirit of Enterprise Award, the Watchdog of 

the Treasury Award, and more than 45 honorary degrees 

from colleges and universities in 15 States and the District 

of Columbia. The American Political Science Association got 

it right when they named him an outstanding legislator, and 

he won his last general election with 87 percent of the vote. 

I will miss Senator LUGAR’s friendship, commonsense approach to getting things done, and commitment to the people 

of Indiana and the people of the United States. I will miss 

his always congenial personality and his gracious and respectful manner toward others. I will close by noting what 

I think may be the biggest accomplishment noted by Indianapolis Monthly Magazine, his 56-year marriage to his wife 

Char. I wish them the best in the coming years. 

THURSDAY, February 7, 2013 

ORDER FOR PRINTING OF TRIBUTES 

Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that 

there be printed as a Senate document a compilation of materials from the Congressional Record in tribute to the retiring Members of the 112th Congress. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. 

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