[From the Homepage of Representative Henry Hyde]

Congressman Henry Hyde has served as Illinois' 6th District (DuPage and Southern Cook Counties) Representative since 1975. He currently chairs the House International Relations Committee. He also sits on the House Judiciary Committee, for which he was chair from 1995 to 2001. He holds a JD from Loyola University School of Law, served in the United States Navy and ranked Commander in Naval Reserve, 1946-1968.

Representative Hyde has successfully advocated for pro-life legislation through-out his career on Capitol Hill. In 1976, he sponsored the first ever successful pro-life bill, which called for the a ban on Medicaid funding of abortion and most recently voted in support of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban. Hyde had promoted the PBA ban for several years, and in 1997, when the ban was up for debate before the Senate, delivered a now famous speech titled, "Calling On Our Better Angels".

"When the time comes, as it surely will, when we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, I've often thought, as Fulton Sheen wrote, that it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You have no advocates, you are there alone standing before God -- and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But I really think that those in the pro-life movement will not be alone. I think there'll be a chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world -- and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, 'Spare him, because he loved us!'"