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It’s not really a statement of support for nominee Rajiv Shah, who’s already got strong and eager support from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. But here’s what the chairman and ranking member of the committee that he’ll appear before for his confirmation hearing have to say:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and [...]

Despite the controversy caused in Pakistan by misunderstandings about the bill, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs just sent out this statement:
Earlier today at the White House, the President signed into law the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009, also known as “Kerry-Lugar-Berman.”
This law is the tangible manifestation of broad support for Pakistan in [...]

If this wasn’t enough, the architects of the Pakistan aid bill — Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) — have issued an “explanatory statement” about what their bill does and does not do. To wit: “The legislation does not seek in any way to compromise Pakistan’s sovereignty, impinge [...]

Speaking of Pakistan, the Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill giving the Pakistani civilian government $7.5 billion over five years has become a fiasco, with the Pakistani military throwing a tantrum over conditions in the aid that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) insist do not exist.
Although Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi endorsed the bill in [...]

Politico’s Laura Rozen had a good post this morning about agita on the Hill after the seemingly unimpeachable Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill that grants $7.5 billion in funding to Pakistan’s civilian government was received with antipathy by the Pakistani military. Yesterday, you’ll recall, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, endorsed the bill, saying he received assurances from [...]

After months of negotiations over the summer between the House, the Senate and the Obama administration, the Senate has passed a bill to triple non-military aid to Pakistan. The bill, upping civilian foreign aid to the Pakistanis to $7.5 billion over five years, was hailed by its Senate authors, John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Richard Lugar [...]

Just posted to the Senate’s site: 20 Democrats — mostly from rural, low-population states — voted in favor of the gun amendment. Two Republicans, Sens. George Voinovich (Ohio) and Richard Lugar (Ind.), voted against it.

With the growing number of Republican Senators saying they’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor — Dick Lugar of Indiana, Mel Martinez of Florida and Olympia Snowe of Maine are the latest — Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell is apparently feeling compelled to come out strongly against her.
A senior aide today told the Associated Press [...]

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is winning over more Republicans every day. As I noted yesterday, by the end of the hearing Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was sounding like one of her biggest defenders.
Today, Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) came out with this statement:
I have listened to the testimony of Judge Sonia Sotomayor before the Senate Judiciary [...]

Conservatives see victory in the stalled nomination of a normally uncontroversial post.