[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20843]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               MYRA HYDE

 Mr. BOND. Mr. President, as Co-Chairman of the Senate Beef 
Caucus, I recognize and commend Ms. Myra Hyde for a decade of service 
on behalf of America's cattlemen. Mr. President, for 10 years, Ms. Myra 
Hyde has served as the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's director 
of environmental issues where she diligently worked on land use, 
conservation policy, and property rights issues. This month, she leaves 
the cowboys for the administrative pastures at the Department of 
Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service.
  Ms. Hyde's contribution to progressive and responsible conservation 
policies and practices are known by those who work with her as well as 
those who have had the unenviable task of locking horns against her in 
the notoriously rough and tumble debate on resource management. She is 
a proud Texan, which is a compliment even outside of Texas.
  Let me conclude by saying that those she leaves behind will sorely 
miss her expertise, honesty and sense of humor. Ms. Hyde has been a 
true friend of America's cattlemen as well as many of us serving here 
in Congress. She will be of great value as a servant of the public at 
Interior. On behalf of the caucus, we wish Myra good luck and ask her 
keep in mind the challenges faced by the hard working people who 
endeavor to feed the people of our nation and much of the 
world.

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