Richard Lugar actually said...

It is my hope to move this nomination as rapidly as we can in the next 48 hours because we must have a confirmed ambassador, and it would be a dereliction of the Congress' responsibility were we to leave here for the next 6 weeks and not have done so.

02/06/2012

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