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Hyde Led GOP Efforts To Impeach Clinton

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By JOE HOLLEY, The Washington Post

Published: November 30, 2007

Henry Hyde, 83, an influential Illinois Republican who managed impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and maintained ties of bipartisan civility during more than three decades in the House of Representatives, died Thursday in Chicago.

He had open-heart surgery in July and died of arrhythmia.

Hyde overcame opposition in both major parties to secure passage of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding of abortions for low-income women. It was the first significant victory for the antiabortion movement after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 made abortion legal.

The funding ban, which survived a Supreme Court challenge in 1980, has been added to congressional spending bills every year since 1977.

As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in 1998, Hyde led House efforts to impeach Clinton on suspicion of lying about his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. In 1999, Hyde was the chief House manager in the unsuccessful effort to win an impeachment conviction from the Senate.

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