Reply #50: Former Rep. Henry Hyde Is Dead at 83

[Gman]

Source: NY Times

Former Rep. Henry Hyde Is Dead at 83

Published: November 29, 2007

Filed at 10:54 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Rep. Henry Hyde, the Illinois Republican who steered the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and championed government restrictions on the funding of abortions, died Thursday. He was 83.
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Hyde retired from Congress at the end of the last session. Earlier this month, President Bush presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The White House praised Hyde, a leading foe of abortion, as a ''powerful defender of life'' and an advocate for a strong national defense.

''He was a gallant champion of the weak and forgotten, and a fearless defender of life in all its seasons,'' Bush said of Hyde that day.



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''He was a gallant champion of the weak and forgotten, and a fearless defender of life in all its seasons,'' Bush said of Hyde that day.

WHAT? In what phucking dimension of the universe did this happen??

In any event, as a good Democrat I say may God rest his soul.