[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 185 (Wednesday, December 5, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H14162-H14163]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         LIFE HAS LOST ITS LION

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. On November 29, Americans learned of the passing of one of 
the giants of this Congress in the 20th century. Congressman Henry Hyde 
of Illinois died at the age of 83.
  As Members in both parties know, throughout his nearly four decades 
in this Congress, Henry Hyde was the essence of dignity, civility, and 
a commitment to principle. He was a champion of the great causes, life, 
liberty

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and the rule of law, a voice for the voiceless, victims of human rights 
abuses, and he was a lion of the right to life. In every sense, life 
has lost its lion, and this movement will miss his roar.
  Henry once quoted me on this floor from his favorite poet Tennyson 
from the poem ``Ulysses.'' He said, by memory, ``Though we are not now 
that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth, that which we 
are, we are, one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and 
fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to 
yield.''
  On all the great issues of the day, Henry Hyde strove, he sought, he 
found, he did not yield. May he rest in peace, and those of us who 
share his values and his principles not rest until the work he began is 
done.

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