Services Held for Former Lawmaker Henry Hyde

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ST. CHARLES, Ill. (AP) - Henry Hyde, Capitol Hill's leading abortion critic for three decades who managed President Clinton's impeachment hearings, was praised by members of both parties at his funeral Friday as a political giant and a warm and close friend.

"Henry's laughter, his stories, even the smell of his cigars will be missed," said U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., one of dozens of current and former House members who attended Hyde's funeral Mass.

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Services Held for Former Lawmaker Henry Hyde

The silver-haired Republican, one of the best-known congressional names ever produced by Illinois, died Nov. 29 ...

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