[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 173 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]
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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.
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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. Blackburn, 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. Cornyn, 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. Gillibrand, 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)
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RESOLUTION
Relative to the death of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar, former United
States Senator for the State of Indiana.
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was born in Indianapolis, 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 1957-1960, 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
1968-1975 and envisioned the unification of the city with the
surrounding Marion County areas and brought uninterrupted economic
growth;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar served on the Indianapolis 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 chairman of the Senate
Agriculture Committee from 1995-2001 and built bipartisan support for
the 1996 federal farm program reforms, initiated a biofuels research
program, reformed the food stamp program, and preserved the federal
school lunch program;
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 reducing 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 government of South Africa, the U.S.
recognition of President Corazon Aquino as the winner of the 1986
Philippines 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 generation Hoosier who was
the longest serving member of Congress 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 Outstanding Legislator by the American
Political Science Association, and was the 2005 recipient of the
American Foreign Service Association Lifetime Contributions to American
Diplomacy Award and the 2016 recipient of the J. William Fulbright Prize
for International Understanding;
Whereas the Honorable Richard G. Lugar was a devoted husband, 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 sorrow and deep
regret the announcement of the death of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar,
former Senator for the State of Indiana; and
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate these
resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit an enrolled
copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
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