[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 99-100]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



 JOYOUS REALIZATION IN REACHING AN END TO A TORTUOUS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN

  (Mr. HYDE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HYDE. Mr. Speaker, my friends, I join you in the joyous 
realization that we have reached the end of a very tortuous political 
campaign, and today is the final act in choosing our national leader.
  The United States Supreme Court very unusually had an important role 
in bringing this to its stated finality. But it did, among several 
things, one very important thing, and that is reassert the primacy of 
the legislative branch, the elected legislature, rather than the 
appointed judicial branch. That is very important.
  Today, we can approach this as Americans, not as Republicans, not as

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Democrats, not as conservatives, not as liberals, but as Americans. We 
can serve the public good, the common good. We are elected to do that. 
Let us put the bitterness and rancor behind us, and let us move forward 
to do the job we are sworn to do. God bless America.

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