ANNUAL COMMITTEE DINNER
Focuses on Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Ranking member and 36-year Senate veteran Richard Lugar greets the crowd.
n July 10, 2012, the U.S. Capitol
Historical Society honored the
history and accomplishments of the
Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations (SCFR) with a reception and
dinner. The SCFR is among the oldest
committees in the Senate: it was one
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of 11 standing committees created in
1816. Senators serving on the
Committee have guided the United
States through almost two centuries of
global interaction, as both a fledgling
nation and a world-wide super power,
and have overseen the Oval Office's
decisions through
countless international crises.
The event was
held in the historic
Kennedy Caucus
Room in the Russell
Senate Office Building.
The Honorable Ron
Sarasin, Society
Chairman John Kerry
recounts his time
serving on the Senate
Committee on Foreign
Relations.
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president, welcomed Committee
Chairman John Kerry (MA), Ranking
Member Richard lugar (IN),
committee members, ambassadors,
Society members, and distinguished
guests. The Honorable Tom Coleman,
chairman of the Society's board of
directors, introduced the keynote
speaker, former Sen. Chuck hagel.
Chairman Kerry, Ranking Member
Lugar, and the Honorable Chuck Hagel
have all served many years on the
committee and value it among their
highest accomplishments in the
Senate. Each recounted work on the
committee that allowed them to reach
across party lines and effect palpable
change in the world. Kerry recounted a
trip he took early in his senatorial
career with then-Chairman Lugar to
the Philippines—a trip where the U.S.
delegation uncovered election fraud.
"Dick (Sen. Lugar) seized the reins, and
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