They were vying for the seat left open by the retirement of Democrat Lee Hamilton.
Then, there are the admirers of the blue-ribbon Iraq Study Group chaired by James Baker and Lee Hamilton.
Former Congressman Lee Hamilton, Esfandiari's colleague at the Woodrow Wilson Center, said her detention has been a long and trying ordeal.
Mr. LEE HAMILTON (Co-chair, Iraq Study Group): The government of Iraq must act.
Panel co-chairman Lee Hamilton, himself a former Democratic congressman, said he thought the current Congress bore some of the blame.
The co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group are former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican, and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat.
Finally, there will be two days of deliberations by the Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
Gates, 63, is also a member of the Iraq Working Group headed by former Secretary of State James Baker, another Bush family loyalist, and former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton (R-IN).
During recent appearances before a variety of congressional committees to discuss the commission's proposals, panel leaders Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean made it clear they're open to refinements in the plan.
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James Baker and Lee Hamilton got a friendly audience with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, but they heard pointed questions and skepticism on the part of some committee members.
For his part, US President Barack Obama is receiving guidance on contending with Iran from former Congressman Lee Hamilton, who co-authored the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group report published in December 2006.
People demanding her release include Lee Hamilton, the prominent former congressman who heads the Wilson Center now and who suggests that not every part of Iran's government may realize what it's done.
He acknowledged the need for a new course in Iraq, and said the report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (chaired by Republican James Baker and Democrat Lee Hamilton) had been helpful.
"Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton are very capable men, but I can't believe they have a secret plan that nobody else has thought of for how to extricate ourselves, " says Max Boot, senior fellow at Council on Foreign Relations.
Bennett, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, and Pete Domenici of New Mexico -- agreed to back a bipartisan amendment that would implement the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, which was headed by former Republican Secretary of State Jim Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton.
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The Administration's inability to argue more effectively that the stakes preclude both of these options seems to have reflected yet another error: the growing influence in its ranks of those like former Secretary of State James Baker and the bipartisan Iraq Study Group he co-chairs with former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
The imperious Baker and his taxpayer-underwritten PR operation have responded to the ridicule (the most devastating of which was the New York Post's depiction on its front page of the ex-SecState and his co-chairman, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, as "Surrender Monkeys") with the last refuge of scoundrels: a claim to bipartisanship.
Multi-instrumentalist Hamilton Lee talked to me about the group's longevity and increasing international popularity.
Hamilton Lee--stage name Mantu, or maybe Hamid--remembers those days fondly.
Las Vegas has the Rangers as clear favorites thanks to Lee and their potent lineup led by Josh Hamilton.
Moments later, Cerny blocked Dods' shot after Lee Wilkie and Scott Robertson combined to open up the Hamilton defence.
One of his first grabs was Sherally Jamani, a family physician near Hamilton whose office was next to that of Lee-Chin's dentist.
Rory Hamilton-Brown showed some positive intent when he smashed a straight drive back at Lee, the paceman unable to hold a stinging chance and suffering a hand injury.
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