Spencer Cox: “when Chairman Jerry Solomon died last Friday, America lost one of freedom's great friends. Jerry had been leading the…”

“when Chairman Jerry Solomon died last Friday, America lost one of freedom's great friends. Jerry had been leading the congressional charge to put the last nail in the coffin of Soviet communism for many years when I began working with him here on Capitol Hill in 1988. Decades earlier he had taken more direct action volunteering as a Marine during the Korean War. In more recent years, it was my privilege to work with Jerry to promote freedom in place of communism in the People's Republic of China. It was Jerry's leadership, more than anything else, that permitted this House to act unanimously to put together the Select Committee on National Security that I, the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter), and others from both sides of the aisle served upon. It was Jerry's help, as chairman of the Committee on Rules, in structuring that select committee of this Congress that paved the way for the unanimous and bipartisan result that we achieved, and for the implementation by the Congress and the execution of every one of our recommendations.”