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A resolution relative to the death of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar, former United States Senator for the State of Indiana.
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116TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
S. RES. 173
Relative to the death of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar, former United
States Senator for the State of Indiana.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
APRIL 29, 2019
Mr. YOUNG (for himself, Mr. BRAUN, Mr. MCCONNELL, Mr. SCHUMER, Mr.
ALEXANDER, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BARRASSO, Mr. BENNET, Mrs. BLACK-
BURN, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BLUNT, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr.
BROWN, Mr. BURR, Ms. CANTWELL, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. CARDIN, Mr.
CARPER, Mr. CASEY, Mr. CASSIDY, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. COONS, Mr. COR-
NYN, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mr. COTTON, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. CRAPO, Mr.
CRUZ, Mr. DAINES, Ms. DUCKWORTH, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. ENZI, Ms.
ERNST, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, Mrs. FISCHER, Mr. GARDNER, Mrs. GILLI-
BRAND, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. GRASSLEY, Ms. HARRIS, Ms. HASSAN, Mr.
HAWLEY, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. HOEVEN, Mrs. HYDE-SMITH,
Mr. INHOFE, Mr. ISAKSON, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. JONES, Mr. KAINE, Mr.
KENNEDY, Mr. KING, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. LANKFORD, Mr. LEAHY, Mr.
LEE, Mr. MANCHIN, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. MCSALLY, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr.
MERKLEY, Mr. MORAN, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. MURPHY, Mrs. MURRAY,
Mr. PAUL, Mr. PERDUE, Mr. PETERS, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. REED, Mr.
RISCH, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. ROMNEY, Ms. ROSEN, Mr. ROUNDS, Mr.
RUBIO, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. SASSE, Mr. SCHATZ, Mr. SCOTT of Florida,
Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. SHELBY, Ms.
SINEMA, Ms. SMITH, Ms. STABENOW, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. TESTER, Mr.
THUNE, Mr. TILLIS, Mr. TOOMEY, Mr. UDALL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr.
WARNER, Ms. WARREN, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WICKER, and Mr.
WYDEN)
RESOLUTION
Relative to the death of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar,
former United States Senator for the State of Indiana.
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Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was born in Indi-
anapolis, Indiana in 1932 and graduated from Shortridge
High School in 1950 in Indianapolis, Indiana as an
Eagle Scout and American Legion Boys Nation delegate;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar studied at Denison
University in Granville, Ohio and at Pembroke College,
University of Oxford, England as a Rhodes Scholar;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar volunteered for the
U.S. Navy and served his country as an officer from
1957โ1960, including as an intelligence briefer to the
Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was elected mayor
of Indianapolis from 1968โ1975 and envisioned the unifi-
cation of the city with the surrounding Marion County
areas and brought uninterrupted economic growth;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar served on the Indi-
anapolis Board of School Commissioners from 1964 to
1967;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was elected to the
United States Senate in 1976; reelected in 1982, 1988,
1994, 2000, and again in 2006, and served from January
3, 1977, to January 3, 2013;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar served as chair of
the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in the
98th Congress;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar served as chair-
man of the Senate Agriculture Committee from 1995โ
2001 and built bipartisan support for the 1996 federal
farm program reforms, initiated a biofuels research pro-
gram, reformed the food stamp program, and preserved
the federal school lunch program;
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Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was one of only
two senators in history to serve 34 years on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, including two terms as
chairman from 1985 to 1987 and from 2003 to 2007;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was a leader in re-
ducing the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological
weapons by passing and overseeing the implementation of
the bipartisan Nunn-Lugar program, which deactivated
more than 7,600 nuclear warheads, millions of chemical
munitions, and several thousand nuclear capable missiles,
and continues to perform non-proliferation missions in
more than forty countries;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar played an essential
role in the enactment of sanctions on the Apartheid gov-
ernment of South Africa, the U.S. recognition of Presi-
dent Corazon Aquino as the winner of the 1986 Phil-
ippines election, the expansion of the NATO alliance, the
construction and passage of the PEPFAR initiative to
combat the global AIDS epidemic, and the ratification of
numerous arms control and anti-terrorism treaties;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was a fifth genera-
tion Hoosier who was the longest serving member of Con-
gress in the history of Indiana;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 20, 2013;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar held 47 honorary
degrees from colleges and universities, was named Out-
standing Legislator by the American Political Science As-
sociation, and was the 2005 recipient of the American
Foreign Service Association Lifetime Contributions to
American Diplomacy Award and the 2016 recipient of
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the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Under-
standing;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was a devoted hus-
band, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather;
Whereas the service of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar on
behalf of the people of Indiana and all people of the
United States earned him the respect and devotion of his
colleagues; and
Whereas the death of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar has
deprived Indiana and the United States of one of the
most outstanding Senators: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound
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sorrow and deep regret the announcement of the death
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of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar, former Senator for
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the State of Indiana; and
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Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate commu-
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nicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives
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and transmit an enrolled copy thereof to the family of the
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deceased.
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