“Richard Lugar” on The Daily Caller

When Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar visits the Hoosier State, he often does it on the taxpayers’ dime. (more)

Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar’s family owns a large farm the Hoosier State, spokesman David Willkie told The Daily Caller. (more)

Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar is running for re-election in a state he has not lived in for over 30 years. (more)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana tea party groups have overwhelmingly endorsed the Republican state treasurer’s bid to unseat six-term U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar in next year’s Senate race. (more)

Take the James E. Clyburn Pedestrian Overpass. Or the The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York. (more)

Democratic political strategists are deeply divided over the political risks and benefits of the Libyan intervention, the resulting media coverage and its impact on the fast-approaching 2012 election. (more)

The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says that, under the Constitution, President Obama must seek congressional approval to attack Libya, something Defense Secretary Robert Gates said would be the first step of instituting a no-fly zone the United Nations just approved. (more)

On Tuesday, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels declined to support a Republican-sponsored right-to-work bill that had sent Indiana House Democrats out of the state, like Wisconsin Democrats, to avoid a possible vote. And that’s not being well received by some conservative leaders. (more)

Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock will launch his primary challenge to Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) on Tuesday with the support of a majority of both the state’s 92 Republican county chairmen and its state party executive committee, he told the Fix in a recent interview. (more)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday in what will be the first showdown between the newly empowered House Republicans and the EPA chief over the agency’s regulatory powers. (more)

South Carolina Republican and conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint introduced legislation to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday, the first official step in bringing the House-passed repeal bill fight into the staid upper chamber. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., is retiring and his party has a big problem in 2012 — and beyond. (more)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana said Tuesday he plans to seek a seventh term next year despite a challenge from tea party groups. (more)

Last week, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell joined the First Church of No Earmarks (for the moment anyway), but now he faces another tough test: will he appoint spending-cutters to the Appropriations Committee? (more)

A key Republican senator whose vote is being sought by the White House to ensure passage of a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia said Tuesday the agreement will be ratified by the Senate. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is poised to approve a nuclear arms pact with Russia, handing President Barack Obama a huge victory on his top foreign policy priority. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama lobbied senators by phone Monday to back an arms treaty with Russia that he’s called a national security imperative, as a top Senate Democrat conceded “house by house combat” would be needed to win enough GOP votes to prevail. (more)

Indiana state Sen. Mike Delph (R), the man some conservative activists in the state are courting to primary Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) in 2012, says he already has the attention of national Republicans. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he’s more optimistic now about ratification of a nuclear weapons treaty with Russia. (more)

President Obama and Republican lawmakers reached their first full-fledged post-election standoff Wednesday, with neither side backing down from its position on whether an arms reduction treaty with Russia should be voted on in the Senate this year or next. (more)