[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20417]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      THE GENTLEMAN FROM ILLINOIS

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. As this session of Congress draws to a close, so draws to 
a close, also, the storied career of the Lion of the Right, Henry Hyde 
of Illinois. As the chairman of several major committees at the center 
of repeated national controversies, Henry Hyde, as Members on both 
sides of the aisle know, has been a paragon of dignity and civility and 
commitment to principle. I would add he has been a lion of the right to 
life and this Chamber will miss his roar.
  I will offer legislation today to name the Rayburn International 
Relations Committee room after this storied legislator, and I urge my 
colleagues to support this measure.
  When I think of Henry Hyde's career, I think of Ulysess by Alfred 
Lord Tennyson who wrote:
  ``Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' 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.''
  Let us honor this rare leader and may God bless the golden years of 
the gentleman from Illinois.

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