Dan Burton: “tonight, we are coming down here to honor one of the greatest orators that has ever been a Member of the House of…”

“tonight, we are coming down here to honor one of the greatest orators that has ever been a Member of the House of Representatives. Henry Hyde, I have known for about 24 years, and I do not think there is a finer Member of Congress that has ever served in this body. He, along with another great orator named Claude Pepper on the Democrat side, made great speeches, speeches that are in the history books and in the record here in Congress, but speeches that I wish everybody in America could have heard. Henry has been a great defender of human rights, of the right to life. He is one of the leaders on the right-to-life issue in the Congress, and he has been fighting for human rights and human life for a long, long time, and he has no peer in that area. He has also been the chairman of the International Relations Committee and he serves in that position today. He is retiring at the end of this term, and I can tell you right now, everybody that knows Henry is going to miss him, miss him not only because he was a great chairman or is a great chairman, but because he has been a great inspiration to us and a great leader in this body. I have a lot of things I want to put in the Record tonight. I will not go into all those things because I am sure my colleagues will mention a lot of them, but Henry has honorary degrees from a whole slew of institutions, universities and colleges around this country.…”