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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But Gramm's most cunning coup on behalf of his friends in the financial services industry—friends who gave him millions over his 24-year congressional career—came on December 15, 2000. It was an especially tense time in Washington.<span> </span><b>Only two days earlier, the Supreme Court had issued its decision on Bush v. Gore. President Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress were locked in a budget showdown. It was the perfect moment for a wily senator to game the system. As Congress and the White House were hurriedly hammering out a $384-billion omnibus spending bill, Gramm slipped in a 262-page measure called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. Written with the help of financial industry lobbyists and cosponsored by Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.),<span> </span></b>the chairman of the agriculture committee, the measure had been considered dead—even by Gramm. Few lawmakers had either the opportunity or inclination to read the version of the bill Gramm inserted. "Nobody in either chamber had any knowledge of what was going on or what was in it," says a congressional aide familiar with the bill's history.</font><span class="mw-headline"><span style=" font-size: medium;"></span></span>

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<div>Sen. Dick Lugar’s K Street ties run deep and include a network of loyal former aides and family members. But the help of his downtown supporters wasn’t enough to push the Indiana Republican to victory Tuesday.</div>

<div>Several lobbyists who remain part of Lugar’s “kitchen cabinet” helped their patron with fundraising. One longtime aide, Chip Andreae, who runs a consulting firm in D.C., helped start a super PAC called Indiana Values.</div>

<div>“I can’t think of one person who has worked for Lugar who hasn’t thought it was one of the great experiences of their life,” said David Gogol, founder of FaegreBD Consulting’s federal lobbying practice and an aide to the Senator for eight years. “It was spectacularly fun, although lots of work, to be with a Senator who had such ambition for the country.”</div>

<div>Two other former Lugar aides, Bob Kabel and Nick Weber, also work at FaegreBD Consulting.</div>

<div>Other Lugar alums downtown include Amy Oberhelman, in-house lobbyist with Target Corp.; Justin Ailes, vice president for government and regulatory affairs with the American Land Title Association; Richard Hohlt of the Hohlt Group; David Lyons, vice president of government relations for Louis Dreyfus Commodities; and Charles Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. Hohlt worked for Lugar when he was mayor of Indianapolis and moved with him to D.C. after he became a Senator in 1977.</div>

<div>The former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations and Agriculture committees has, not surprisingly, mentored people who went on to lobby in those areas.</div>

<div>“I’m sure if I’d not worked for Sen. Lugar, I wouldn’t be doing what I did after or doing what I [do] today,” said Lyons, who has been fundraising for his long-ago boss. “It was a very important thing in my life and my career.”</div>

<div>Conner, whose organization also helped Lugar raise money, added that the Senator’s footprint downtown is “a big one.”</div>

<div>Lugar, he said, hired him for a Hill job in 1980 when he was a loan officer in an agriculture bank in Indiana. He later went on to serve as chief of staff of the Senate Agriculture panel during Lugar’s chairmanship.</div>

<div>Conner said he and the other alumni have kept in touch over the decades through regular events such as Chicken Fest, a reunion of sorts at Andreae’s family chicken farm on the Chesapeake Bay. Andreae did not return calls seeking comment. “It got to be such a large group that it fell by the wayside,” Conner said of Chicken Fest. “But for many years that was our gathering point.”</div>

<div>Though many of Lugar’s longtime supporters don’t expect him to enter the lobbying business himself, the Senator wouldn’t be the only member of his family to land on K Street. <b>His son, Dave Lugar, runs a lobbying firm</b>.blackrock Dave Lugar’s wife, Katherine Lugar, is the top lobbyist for the Retail Industry Leaders Association. Another daughter-in-law, Kelly Lugar, is a lobbyist at SNR Denton....</div>

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Sen. Richard <font color="#FF0000">Lugar,</font> R-Ind., a moderate elder statesman who is deeply respected among his party’s old guard, has long been on the record with his worries about the effects of climate change. He signed up his 604-acre farm to participate in the (now defunct) volunteer Chicago Climate Exchange cap-and-trade program, and he has not changed his views about climate science—even though he is expected to be a tea party target in 2012. Lugar calls the Washington climate-change debate “very ill-informed.”

In part, he blames the scientific community for failing to translate and communicate its findings clearly to policymakers in language they can understand. The complexity and nuance is surely ill-suited to the sound-bite simplicity of the Beltway debate. But Lugar says that the only way science can stand up for itself is by entering the fray—loudly, clearly, and simply.

“Many would argue that a predominant number of scientists have said this or that—but whatever they’ve said has not come clearly through to laypersons or members of Congress.… I have gone to conferences for several years and have pled for indicators … that would make a difference in terms of my being able to argue, “ he said. “This may be impractical, but in Times Square, there’s an indicator of how the public debt is rising. We’re going to have to have, for there to be a good public discussion about this, some metric which is understandable.”

But Lugar, like every other lawmaker in Washington, knows full well that Congress has no chance of taking up climate-change legislation any time in the near future. For now, the only policy action that might be possible is battening down the hatches against the floods and droughts that scientists say are on their way—something Lugar saw firsthand when his state suffered devastating flooding earlier this year. “In terms of public policy, we’ll have to deal with more violent storms in the planning of governance for cities that abut rivers and oceans. Whether you buy climate change or not, as a public servant you had better be prepared for many more climate disasters.”

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(Reuters) - Senator Richard Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the Senate and leading foreign policy voice, was defeated in the Indiana Republican primary by a Tea Party-backed challenger on Tuesday, the first Senate incumbent ousted in the 2012 election year.</p>

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Lugar conceded defeat to challenger Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who attacked the soft-spoken Senator for votes in support of Democratic President Barack Obama.</p>

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"My public service is not concluded," Lugar told supporters in Indianapolis. "I look forward to what can be achieved in the Senate in the next eight months despite a very difficult national election atmosphere."</p>

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The defeat of Lugar gives a boost to the Tea Party movement, which wants to force deep cuts in government spending and reduce the size of the federal government.</p>

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The outcome also gives Democrats an unexpected opportunity to win a Republican-held seat in November's elections. Democrats are clinging to a 53-47 advantage in the Senate but have many more incumbents standing for re-election than Republicans.</p>

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When Lugar, 80, last ran for re-election in 2006, he was seen as so invincible that Democrats did not field an opponent.</p>

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But the soft-spoken senator, who is the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, saw the atmosphere of Congress change dramatically in recent years to gridlock.</p>

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After the arrival of the conservative insurgent Tea Party movement on the political scene, Lugar's long track record of bipartisanship and foreign policy expertise were out of fashion.</p>

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His votes for Obama's Supreme Court appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan riled conservatives, as had the fact that he had not lived in Indiana since 1977.</p>

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Mourdock said Lugar had lost touch with Indiana Republicans, who were looking for change. Conservatives labeled Lugar as Obama's favorite Republican. Mourdock will face Democratic Congressman Joe Donnelly in the November election.</p>

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"They want to see someone who is willing to take a stand to challenge the Obama agenda," Mourdock said earlier on Tuesday while greeting voters at a church in Avon, a suburb of Indianapolis.</p>

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Lugar had bemoaned the amount of money being spent on the race by outsiders, most of it on Mourdock.</p>

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<b>Super PACs, the unregulated vehicle for a surge in campaign financing this year, poured about $4.6 million into the Indiana Senate primary, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission.</b></p>

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<b>More than $3 million of that total went for ads supporting Mourdock or attacking Lugar, paid for by conservative groups such as <span style=" background-color: #FFF200;">Club for Growth, the National Rifle Association and Koch Industries-backed FreedomWorks For America.</span></b></p>

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While Lugar was backed by popular Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and Senate colleague John McCain, many conservatives backed Mourdock.</p>

<h3><span class="mw-headline">Senate career</span></h3>

<p>Lugar unsuccessfully sought election to the U.S. Senate in 1974, but two years later, he ran again, unseating incumbent Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Hartke" class="extiw" title="w:Vance Hartke">Vance Hartke</a>. In 2006, he will run without major party opposition for re-election to a sixth term. <a href="http://www.therepublic.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=111&ArticleID=93982&TM=13615.78" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.therepublic.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=111&ArticleID=93982&TM=13615.78" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>

Lugar ran for the Republican nomination for President in 1996, but his campaign failed to gain traction.

Lugar 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 initiated a partnership with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sam_Nunn" title="Sam Nunn">Sam Nunn</a> with the objective of eliminating latent weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. To date, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn-Lugar_Cooperative_Threat_Reduction" class="extiw" title="w:Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction">Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction</a> program has deactivated more than 5,900 nuclear warheads that were once aimed at the United States.<a href="http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b1i.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b1i.html" rel="nofollow">[3]</a></p>

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As Chairman of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,Nutrition,and_Forestry" title="Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry">Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry</a>, <b>Lugar built bipartisan support</b> for 1996 federal farm program reforms, ending 1930s-era federal production controls. He initiated a biofuels research program to help decrease U.S. dependency on foreign oil, and led initiatives to streamline the U.S. Department of Agriculture, reform the food stamp program, and preserve the federal school lunch program.<a href="http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b1i.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b1i.html" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>

<h2><span class="mw-headline">Money in politics</span></h2>

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<th colspan="3">Links to more campaign contribution information for Richard G. Lugar

from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th>

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<td>Fundraising profile:</td>

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<td>Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td>

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<td>Top contributors by industry:</td>

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<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Lugar%2C+Richard+G" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Lugar%2C+Richard+G" rel="nofollow">Revolving door profile for Richard G. Lugar</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00001764" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00001764" rel="nofollow">2006 privately funded travel profile for Richard G. Lugar</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00001764" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00001764" rel="nofollow">Personal finance profile for Richard G. Lugar</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline">Committees and affiliations</span></h2>

<h3><span class="mw-headline">Committees</span></h3>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Agriculture,Nutrition,and_Forestry" title="Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry">Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry</a>

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<li>Subcommittee on Nutrition and Food Assistance, Sustainable and Organic Agriculture, and General Legislation</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Energy, Science and Technology</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation, Forestry and Credit</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Senate Committee on Foreign Relations">Senate Committee on Foreign Relations</a> - Ranking Member</li>

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<h4><span class="mw-headline">Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</span></h4>

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<li>Subcommittee on Forestry Conservation and Rural Revitalization</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Marketing Inspection and Production Promotion</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Research Nutrition and General Legislation</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Senate Committee on Foreign Relations">Senate Committee on Foreign Relations</a> - Chair</li>

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<h3><span class="mw-headline">Affiliations</span></h3>

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<li>Advisory Council, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Executive_Service_Corps" title="International Executive Service Corps">International Executive Service Corps</a></li>

<li>Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nuclear_Threat_Initiative" title="Nuclear Threat Initiative">Nuclear Threat Initiative</a> (NTI).</li>

<li>Member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Aspen_Strategy_Group" title="Aspen Strategy Group" class="mw-redirect">Aspen Strategy Group</a></li>

<li>Jefferson Awards Board Member, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Institute_for_Public_Service" title="American Institute for Public Service">American Institute for Public Service</a></li>

<li>International Advisory Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Nonproliferation_Studies" title="Center for Nonproliferation Studies">Center for Nonproliferation Studies</a></li>

<li>Recipient of the 2001 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NED_Democracy_Service_Medal" title="NED Democracy Service Medal">NED Democracy Service Medal</a> <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_G._Lugar#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup></li>

<li>International Advisory Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freeman-Spogli_Institute" title="Freeman-Spogli Institute">Freeman-Spogli Institute</a> <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_G._Lugar#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup></li>

<li>Advisory Council, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_on_International_Media_Assistance" title="Center on International Media Assistance">Center on International Media Assistance</a> <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_G._Lugar#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup></li>

<li>Former Board Member (1989), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Democracy" title="Center for Democracy">Center for Democracy</a></li>

<li>Former Director (1992), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Endowment_for_Democracy" title="National Endowment for Democracy">National Endowment for Democracy</a> <sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_G._Lugar#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup></li>

<li>Advisory Council (2008), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Technoserve" title="Technoserve">Technoserve</a> <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_G._Lugar#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline">More background data</span></h2>

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