Dick Lugar

Instead, however, oil exports have stopped, putting upward pressure on oil prices globally.

our dilemma clearly is that we are attempting to be of assistance in a lot of places.

As Senator Lugar said and as President Obama said in the press conference last week, he talked about three reasons why we are paying more at the pumps: speculators, uncertainty in Iran, and South Sudan shutting off its oil.

There is a bill in the House, the Sudan Peace Security and Accountability Act of 2012, that addresses many of these subjects, and we hope that the Senate will introduce an equally robust bill.

We need to do what we are best at, real diplomacy, starting with China.

I just wanted to endorse your idea as a hope that the administration might pick up on the testimony.

Let us work with the international community to toughen the sanctions, make Khartoum a very lonely place.

The Foreign Relations Committee has become very well informed about Sudan, and now South Sudan, over the past decade.

despite our very best attempts, we are now being rebuffed by those who say that our actions amount to gross interference in their affairs.

The extreme violence and depravation that characterize much of the conflict in the central African region, including Sudan, has recently been brought home to millions in this country through the viral YouTube video that depicts the cruelty…

This is, unfortunately, due to the inordinate amount of human suffering that has occurred there, including genocide, other crimes against humanity, deadly tribal conflicts and now border clashes.

If we work together, all of us, we cannot fail.

the calls for international assistance as a plot to get inside Sudan and eventually take these areas south

When the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed in 2005, finally achieved the separation of South Sudan from the north last July, it was hoped that the petroleum wealth they shared--oil from the south is exported through pipelines in…

I rise today in support of American jobs and national security. First, I would like to take a moment to express my condolences to families who have lost loved ones in the tornadoes that struck Indiana and other States on March 2. Last…

Our foreign assistance should be targeted at sustainable development that promotes self-sufficiency and produces demonstrable results.

Well, I hope your reports will give data about this so-called sustainability in Afghanistan and, for that matter, in Iraq, where we still have an important program.

Our national debt has grown to more than $15 trillion. This scenario brings great pressure on our Government's financial obligations and places our entire economy at risk.

One of the great disputes in the past in terms of agricultural advancement has been resistance to genetically modified seed.

Now, that kind of change worldwide would make an enormous difference in humankind.

the Green Revolution, as Senator Lugar has certainly talked to me about, happened in part because of great new technologies created by scientists

I am very concerned about the safety of our workers in Afghanistan.

I just want to thank again Dr. Shah for very informative testimony.

I am curious how you have overcome that resistance, which endures among the Europeans.

Under the constitution, any decision placing us as a party to armed conflict in Syria rests with the Congress.