Trent Franks: “I thank Congressman Manzullo. Henry Hyde was perhaps more responsible than any other Member of this body for allowing me…”

“I thank Congressman Manzullo. Henry Hyde was perhaps more responsible than any other Member of this body for allowing me to become a Member of Congress, and I stand here thanking him for his work and for him allowing me to come to this place. Mr. Speaker, our moment in history is marked by mortal conflict between a culture of life and a culture of death. God put us in this world to do noble things, to love and to cherish our fellow human beings, not to destroy them. Today, we must choose sides. Mr. Speaker, those words were spoken by one Henry Hyde, who in 1924 was born in the same State that once gave us an Abraham Lincoln who guided America through that terrible storm that brought about the end of a cancer called slavery that it had embedded itself so deeply in American policy. That same greatness of spirit that compelled Abraham Lincoln to remind our Nation that all men are created equal also compelled Henry Hyde to spend 32 years of his life serving this body in defense of that same truth.”