Dick Lugar

tomorrow, the U.S. Navy celebrates its 236th birthday. On Friday, October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress, representing the citizens of 13 American colonies, passed a resolution to acquire the first two warships for the Continental…

I rise today in recognition of the 68th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Sicily. On July 10, 1943, under orders from GEN Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Fifteenth Army Group, comprised of GEN George Patton's Seventh Army and British GEN…

I rise today, with several of my colleagues to recognize the outstanding service and contribution of a fellow Hoosier and life-long public servant, Dave Johnson. Dave first joined my staff in 1987 and he has been a brilliant resource to me…

May I take this opportunity, to offer an introduction also to one of our witnesses?

I would be delighted to have both reports in regard to my first question as well as the second.

I have re-introduced the Farm Flexibility Act, and this legislation would permit producers to grow fruits and vegetables for processing while maintaining their historical base acres.

I introduced what was named the Farm Ranch Equity Stewardship and Health Act, the FRESH Act, which would provide a true insurance based safety net for all farmers regardless of what did they grow.

I would welcome that comment by Dr. Woteki.

That would be helpful if you would brief our staff on those findings and that will at least make our discussions more informed as we proceed.

it is almost inconceivable in the common sense of the American public that a farmer would not be able to plant tomatoes or beans or corn or what have you on his land without these cumbersome restrictions

I underline that because most of us do not understand, you have a death in the family or somebody decides to go abroad or so forth, suddenly you lose this history and therefore, you lose the ability even to produce on your land.

I would note that a good number of Americans have observed that throughout all the problems in Darfur, with the charge of genocide and crimes against humanity by the government of President al-Bashir duplicating their behavior in the…

I think we have to keep those issues in our dialogue. It's political openness. It's fairness to allowing new political forces to develop. It's human rights culture.

I'm hopeful that somehow a humane streak will come over all of us, Europeans as well as the United States, because otherwise the possibility of getting the kinds of yields that are going to be required to support that population are pretty…

Let me just carry forward a question many of us have raised about the lack of a South Sudanese constitution.

It may be obvious to all of us listening today, but underline why it is important that indeed the international community, as opposed to just the United States, play a key role here.

I appreciate your responses.

Essentially, one of the dilemmas in the development of agriculture in many African countries... has been this disagreement between the United States and our European friends on so-called genetically modified seed or procedures.

So the co-op or the organization Statewide has to, through circulars or through some type of advertisement, make this knowledge available.

Rural energy efficiency has broad bipartisan support.

Will the international community join us in large measure, or will the United States again be the default lead donor in stabilization and nation-building efforts?

Is there a basis that, as we witness this process unfolding, we could observe 3 or 4 years from now that essentially this Government looks much like those governments involved in the so-called Arab Spring?

The ordinary observer of this would say essentially that the Government right now is the army or the military force.

One of the points often made about the recent Egyptian experience was not just simply the young people in Tahrir Square, but the fact that there were millions of people throughout the country who very much lacked food this year.

My recently introduced Practical Energy Plan, S. 1321, includes the Rural Energy Savings Program proposal we are discussing today.