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      <excerpt> Bayh, D-Ind., Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, all had objected to the proposed medical-devices fee, which was one way Sen. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Purdue University and US Senator Richard Lugar are partnering to create a program to promote the science of forestry. The Lugar-Purdue Future of Forestry ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a bill last week that would permit Russian arms experts to come ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> ... planning on sending delegations to observe the November 29 elections in Honduras, according to a statement issued by Republican Senator Richard Lugar. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Finkton was one of 32 in the US and the only Hoosier to receive a 2010 scholarship. A well-known Rhodes Scholar from Indianapolis is Sen. Richard Lugar ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...School graduate and a respected federal trial judge in Indiana. He had the enthusiastic backing of Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, who called him &quot;superbly qualified.&quot; In fact, Lugar went so far as to have the opponents' charges against Hamilton </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Prominent among were Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Richard Lugar, the Ranking member of the Committee and ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>It has bipartisan backing &#8212; formerly Joe Biden and Richard Lugar, now John Kerry and Lugar &#8212; yet even this year it got nowhere. I think to most people it seems a bit remote or irrelevant. So look at these photos &#8212; but brace yourself, ...</excerpt>
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