John Kerry laments Dick Lugar's primary loss

Dick Lugar’s long tenure in the Senate will soon end, and John Kerry isn’t happy about it.

Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar, among the longest-serving Republicans in U.S. Senate history, on Tuesday lost his reelection primary to tea-party-backed state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. With Lugar’s exit in January, the Senate will lose one of its few remaining members with a habit of working across the aisle.

Sen. Kerry, D-Mass., has worked with Lugar on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, currently as its Democratic chairman while Lugar served as its ranking member. Lugar is a well-established Republican voice on foreign policy, having coauthored the seminal Nunn-Lugar nuclear nonproliferation legislation.