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Michiana congressmen 'disappointed,' 'outraged' by pipeline decision
As recently as last week, U. S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, speaking in Niles, talked about the need to re-duce the country’s depend-ence on foreign oil and re-ferred to the proposed $7 billion Keystone XL Can-ada-to-Texas pipeline project as a...Tags: Fred Upton, Joe Donnelly, Politics, Environmental Issues, Barack Obama
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Former Sen. Lugar to be knighted by the British
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Richard Lugar is being knighted on orders from the Queen of England, joining a select list of Americans to receive the distinction. The Indiana Republican, who this year left the Senate after serving 36 years, will...
Tags: Washington, DC, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Congress, Politics, Elizabeth II
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Pence, Bosma intraparty tax battle boils over
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republicans typically invoke Ronald Reagan's "11th Commandment" when they're fighting within the family, and there's been plenty of infighting recently over Gov. Mike Pence's tax cut at the Statehouse. Reagan made famous the...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Politics, U.S. House of Representatives, Personal Income, Americans for Prosperity
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Donnelly joins Senate agriculture, military panels
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Newly elected U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly will serve on the Senate's agriculture and military panels. Donnelly announced Wednesday he will serve on the Agriculture and Armed Service committees in addition to the Senate Aging...
Tags: Joe Donnelly, Politics, Richard Mourdock, Elections, Joe Donnelly
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Mourdock not ruling out another run for office
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock says he hasn't ruled out another run for political office — something he said he considered after his loss for a U.S. Senate seat. Mourdock, a Republican, lost to Democrat Joe...
Tags: Joe Donnelly, Politics, Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, Parties and Movements
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Lugar: Political partisanship 'out of control'
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar used his first public speech since leaving office in January to warn that political partisanship "is out of control" in the U.S. Lugar also said during Tuesday's speech at Duke University that...
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Donnelly wants Zody to lead Democrats
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly asked veteran Capitol Hill staffer John Zody this week to run the Indiana Democratic Party, but his appointment hinges on approval of the party's state central committee. A Democratic official close to...
Tags: Vi Simpson, Democratic Party, Joe Donnelly, Politics, U.S. Senate
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Donnelly on fiscal cliff: 'If we had a vote tomorrow, we could get this done'
Joe Donnelly was back in the South Bend area Sunday. The 2nd District congressman who won the senate seat currently held by Dick Lugar was visiting the Food Bank of Northern Indiana. We asked him about the pending drama surrounding the so-called "fiscal...
Tags: Joe Donnelly, Fiscal Cliff
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GOP candidates in close races disavow rape remark
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just as Mitt Romney and other Republicans had cut into the Democrats' advantage with female voters, a tea party-backed Senate candidate's awkward remark — that if rape leads to pregnancy it's "something God intended" —...
Tags: Incest, Democratic Party, Joe Donnelly, Politics, Abortion Issue
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Germany to present Lugar with highest honor
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Sen. Richard Lugar is collecting another honor. The Lugar Center, his Washington-based nonprofit, says German President Joachim Gauck has decided to bestow on Lugar the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit. The presentation...
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Lugar: Bowen couldn't refuse to serve patients, US
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar says Otis "Doc" Bowen couldn't refuse to serve. Lugar issued a statement Sunday mourning the loss of the former two-term Indiana governor and Health and Human Services secretary under President... -
Lugar hits Mourdock mailer, reiterates no support
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Retiring Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is disputing a conservative mailer in Indiana that claims he supports Republican Richard Mourdock and reiterating he will not campaign for the tea-party backed opponent who unseated him in...
Tags: Politics, Richard Mourdock, Elections
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