Honorable Richard G. Lugar
United States Senator, Indiana, Republican
Senator Lugar was first elected to the U.S. House of Representativesin 1976. He served on the Indianapolis Board of School Commissionersfrom 1964 to 1967 and as Mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1975.He chairs the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee andis a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and the SelectCommittee on Intelligence. The following is from the Senate floordebate of October 8, 1999, on the resolution of ratification tothe Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.The Senate has begun consideration of the Comprehensive TestBan Treaty. I regret that the Senate is taking up the treaty inan abrupt and truncated manner that…
