Henry Hyde: “I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs.”

Members of this Committee know the story of how Congressman Henry Hyde changed his mind when the 1982 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act was in play by virtue of the facts and the testimony that he saw.

I take the floor to remind my colleagues of two home truths that may have been forgotten in the 4 years and 4 months since September 11, 2001. The first of these is that we are a Nation at war. Decades of dealing with terror networks like…

the right to vote--democracy itself--is more than a way to settle disputes, however petty or important. It is, rather, the embodiment of a larger, much more important notion: the notion that every individual is worthwhile; that every…

the election of Hamas to a majority within the Palestinian Legislative Council and to the formation of a terrorist organization-led government in the Palestinian Authority poses a serious challenge to the United States and its allies. The…