Honorable Richard G. Lugar
United States Senator, Indiana, Republican
Senator Lugar was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976.He served on the Indianapolis Board of School Commissions from1964 to 1967 and as Mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1975. Heis a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the Agriculture,Nutrition and Forestry Committee, and the Select Committee onIntelligence. The following statement is from the Senate floordebate of March 19, 1998, on Protocols to the North Atlantic Treatyof 1949 on Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.The Senate has begun a historical debate over NATO’s future,one that surely will reverberate for many years to come. I believewe have a…
