Henry Hyde said "saying good-bye is one of life's least pleasant tasks, especially when it is people you love, people you have grown to respect and count on. This year, and at the end of every Congress, we say good-bye to so many wonderful people. But Jerry Solomon is quite special. I could describe him as a perfect blue-white diamond in a sea of zircons, but that makes the rest us zircons and that might not be the most apt description. Jerry, they have talked about your fierce patriotism, about your loyalty to the party, about your energy, your activism. I just want to say two things about you. One, I know of your personal physical courage, spiritual courage. It is rare and it is marvelous. But most of all in a time of overpowering cynicism, you have proven by your 20 years here in Congress that politics can be a noble profession, because you have brought real nobility to it. We will miss you." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordOctober 6, 1998

saying good-bye is one of life's least pleasant tasks, especially when it is people you love, people you have grown to respect and count on. This year, and at the end of every Congress, we say good-bye to so many wonderful people. But Jerry Solomon is quite special. I could describe him as a perfect blue-white diamond in a sea of zircons, but that makes the rest us zircons and that might not be the most apt description. Jerry, they have talked about your fierce patriotism, about your loyalty to the party, about your energy, your activism. I just want to say two things about you. One, I know of your personal physical courage, spiritual courage. It is rare and it is marvelous. But most of all in a time of overpowering cynicism, you have proven by your 20 years here in Congress that politics can be a noble profession, because you have brought real nobility to it. We will miss you.

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Henry Hyde

Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Paying tribute to Jerry Solomon as he departs Congress.

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