Henry Hyde, Leader of Clinton Impeachment, Dies at 83
The man behind the Clinton impeachment and 16 years of blocking federal funding for abortions died this morning at 83. Hyde, a Chicago Republican on the Hill since '75, suffered cardiac arrest after being admitted to the hospital for renal heart failure on November 25. W honored him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this month, calling him a "defender of life in all its forms." According to the Family Research Council, his cheerleader if there ever were one, remembers him as...
