[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 102 (Tuesday, June 18, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3719]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 710. Mr. YOUNG submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle C of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1018. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NAMING OF A DDG-51 CLASS 
                   VESSEL IN HONOR OF THE HONORABLE RICHARD G 
                   LUGAR.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) 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.
       (2) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar volunteered for the 
     United States 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.
       (3) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar was elected to the 
     United States Senate in 1976, and served from January 3, 
     1977, to January 3, 2013.
       (4) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar was one of only two 
     senators in history to serve 34 years on the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations of the Senate, including two terms as chair 
     from 1985 to 1987 and from 2003 to 2007.
       (5) As a leader in reducing the threat of nuclear, 
     chemical, and biological weapons, the Honorable Richard G. 
     Lugar passed and oversaw 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 40 countries.
       (6) The Honorable Richard G. Lugar played an essential role 
     in the enactment of sanctions on the Apartheid government of 
     South Africa, the United States recognition of President 
     Corazon Aquino as the winner of the 1986 Philippines 
     election, the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization alliance, the construction and passage of the 
     United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief 
     initiative to combat the global AIDS epidemic, and the 
     ratification of numerous arms control and anti-terrorism 
     treaties.
       (7) On November 20, 2013, the Honorable Richard G. Lugar 
     was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
       (8) On April 28, 2019, at 87 years of age, the Honorable 
     Richard G. Lugar died in Falls Church, Virginia.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the Secretary of the Navy should name the next unnamed vessel 
     of the DDG-51 Flight III class of destroyer warship in honor 
     of the Honorable Richard G. Lugar.
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