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Lugar Becomes First Republican To Announce Vote For Sotomayor

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lugar, Senate Judiciary Committee, Sotomayor Confirmation, Richard Lugar, Sonia Sotomayor, Richard Lugar Supreme Court, Lugar Sotomayor, Politics News

Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court seemed relatively pre-ordained following four days of somewhat news-less testimony before the ...

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Senator Leahy's Letter to the G.A.O., the Investigative Arm of the U.S. Congress

Sunil Chacko | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Oversight, Lugar, Bayh, Senator Leahy, G.a.O., President Obama, Coburn, World Bank, Transparency, Google for Government, Accountability, Deputy General Counsel Daniel Gordon, Acting Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Politics News

The letter to the G.A.O., the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress, now over a year old, was sent by U.S. Senators Leahy, Bayh and Lugar following the disappearance of the Bayh Amendment.

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Pakistani Humanitarian Crisis Largely Unaddressed By US Aid

Huffington Post Contributor | Madiha Sattar | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Manan Ahmed, Lugar, Madiha Sattar, Pakistan, Kerry, Ee, Swat Valley, Karachi-Pakistan, World News

Pakistanis are in for a rude shock. $900 million, almost half of the $1.9 billion aid package that the US House of Representatives recently approved, ...

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The Mystery of the Disappearance of the Bayh Amendment

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bayh Amendment, Lugar, Wyden-Snowe Amendment, Leahy, Senators Bayh, World Bank, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

The US Senate should pass the Bayh amendment again and ensure that it is not taken out yet again from the Appropriations bill of 2010 under discussion now.