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The former senator will be given the rank of honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Richard Lugar will serve as a distinguished scholar at IU’s School of Global and International Studies.
The announcement is expected to include an expansion of the Center on Congress, housed at Indiana University.
Legislators say the are ready to get to work with just two months before another showdown, over raising the debt limit and avoiding automatic spending cuts.
There were two yeas, six nays, and one abstention from Indiana congressmen. Both Indiana senators voted in favor of it.
When the new Congress is sworn in Jan. 3, Indiana will lose 84 years of seniority overnight.
Both Democratic and Republican senators complimented Lugar, who is leaving office at the end of this year.
Lugar says there are some in Washington who, for partisan reasons, find it acceptable to send the country over the fiscal cliff.
Sen. Richard Lugar announced Friday he will join the University of Indianapolis to teach and head an internship program at the end of his term.
Senator Richard Lugar received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for his work on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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