LUGAR BIDEN

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., left, listens to ranking Democratic member Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., 2005, after the committee voted 10-8 to send the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to the Senate floor. But it took the rare step of refusing to endorse the blunt-speaking conservative.