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A Colorado congressman is praising a bill recently introduced in the House that would curb voter fraud by requiring voters to actually prove their citizenship. It is called the Federal Election Integrity Act of 2004 (H.R. 4530). Introduced by Illinois Republican Henry Hyde, it is designed to amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, also known as the "Motor Voter Bill." That Clinton-era legislation has been criticized because it provides no safeguards from illegal aliens being able to register to vote. That is why one of the stated purposes of Hyde's legislation is to prevent fraud in federal elections....

Asking for Hyde Robert Novak (archive) July 17, 2004 | Print | Send WASHINGTON -- More than 100 Republican House members have signed a letter to President Bush asking that Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois, currently House International Relations Committee chairman and a leading opponent of abortion, be a prime-time speaker at the Republican National Convention in New York. The letter was written by Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, who has led the complaint about lack of strong conservative speakers at the convention during prime time. The schedule includes Sen. John McCain of Arizona, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former New...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Pro-life speakers sought for conventionBy Ralph Z. HallowTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished July 16, 2004 More than half the Republicans in the House have signed a formal complaint to President Bush about the failure to give prominent conservative, pro-life party members even one prime-time speaking role at the Republican National Convention.     A letter signed by 127 of the 227 House Republicans, including the chairmen of several powerful committees, urges Mr. Bush to add Rep. Henry J. Hyde, Illinois Republican and longtime abortion foe, to what is a mostly pro-choice cast of speakers at the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 convention in...

An Evening With Dr. Ron Paulby Steven Yatesby Steven Yates Samuel Adams once observed how "it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds." I don’t know how irate he is, but Dr. Ron Paul (R-Tx) is surely among the leaders of a tireless minority in our time. If liberty by some chance does return to American soil in our lifetimes, we will doubtless have Dr. Paul to thank for having laid part of the groundwork over the past couple of decades. On April 2, Dr....

Senator Hatch: Provoking A Split Within Conservatism…Again Paul Weyrich Monday, Apr. 05, 2004 The year was 1976. Ronald Reagan had lost the GOP's presidential nomination to Gerald Ford. The prospects for conservative victories in Congress were not very promising. But I was sure I had found a rising star. He was articulate. He was charismatic. He claimed to be a principled conservative. I thought of him as a potential presidential candidate. As chairman of the Free Congress PAC, I backed him at the state convention (In his state you have to get a certain percentage of the convention vote to...

April 3, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - A congressional leader is questioning whether an independent panel created by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan can get to the bottom of allegations of corruption in the oil-for-food program. In a letter to Annan, Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House International Committee, also said the committee plans to request U.N. documents as part of its own inquiry into the corruption allegations. Hyde (R-Ill.) said the independent investigation's "structure and scope is a matter of great concern to many in Congress." A copy of the letter, dated Thursday, was provided to The Associated Press. Investigators...

There is hardly a more resolute supporter of Israel in Congress than Rep. Henry Hyde, the venerable chairman of the House International Relations Committee. That is why his March 25 letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell is so important. It is a plea to deflect Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's wall around the Holy Land from its planned position blocking the Scriptural pathway of Jesus Christ. ''I fear that important religious sites will become museums for commercial purposes and will no longer be maintained as places of spiritual worship shared by billions across the world,'' Hyde, a prominent Roman Catholic...

WASHINGTON -- The United States is now plunging into a fundamental overhaul of its assistance to developing nations, demanding that applicants for a rich new source of financing prove their worthiness. Already countries from Bolivia to Bangladesh are competing to be among the winners. This month, the board of the new Millennium Challenge Account met for the first time to lay groundwork for grants that President Bush has said will total $5 billion annually by 2008. In the first year, perhaps just 15 nations will win awards. The program is ambitious. If it is fully financed, the Millennium Challenge Account...

In our vulnerable world, to wait until compelling evidence of a threat is leisurely compiled is to wait for our destruction, to err on the side of annihilation. It is tendentious - or evidence of an alarming naivete - to talk of intelligence failures as shocking surprises, as though these estimates and extrapolated predictions could ever be more than imperfect. A far more serious intelligence failure than the one currently in the spotlight became evident in 1991 when, in the aftermath of the Gulf War, we uncovered Iraq's massive WMD programs, including the bone-chilling discovery that Saddam was only an...

WASHINGTON - Under attack by House Democrats, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said Wednesday he was surprised U.N. and American inspectors did not find storehouses of hidden weapons in Iraq (news - web sites). AP Photo Latest headlines: · Pentagon: 3 Months in Iraq Cost $14B AP - 9 minutes ago · Red Cross Confident It Will See Saddam AP - 25 minutes ago · Powell denies truth "murdered" in run-up to Iraq warAFP - 50 minutes ago Special Coverage   But Powell told the International Relations Committee that "we presented what we believed the truth...

<p>When President Bush signed a ban on partial-birth abortion yesterday, it marked the first congressional rollback of Roe v. Wade since the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion was handed down in 1973. And it marked the success of an idea as well. The idea, of course, is that abortion is inhuman and should be limited as sharply as possible and ultimately outlawed altogether.</p>

CHICAGO - U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde on Monday called for closer cooperation with the European Union on festering trade differences in the wake of the collapse of world trade talks in Mexico.Hyde, who chairs the House International Relations Committee, said the two sides should create an Atlantic Marketplace to eliminate protectionist measures and lessen undue regulatory burdens on businesses seeking to operate in both markets."The collapse of the Cancun ministerial has highlighted the deep fissures that impede progress toward a global trade accord," Hyde told a Chicago conference on the global economy. "We cannot allow our interests in other areas...

ACLU gaining allies from unusual places Conservatives flocking to rights group for help protecting liberties 12/02/2002 Associated Press WASHINGTON - Whether protecting the disenfranchised or standing up for the right to offend, the American Civil Liberties Union has sided with those claiming they were wronged, even if it meant a distinctly minority stand. But since Sept. 11 and the government's expansive campaign of monitoring and detention, people are turning to the 82-year-old organization to help safeguard their liberties. Among them are conservatives who made the phrase "card-carrying member of the ACLU" a political insult, but who now are signing...