Honorable Henry J. Hyde
United States Representative, Illinois, Republican
Representative Hyde, of the Sixth District of Illinois, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1966 to 1974, where he was Majority Leader from 1971 to 1972. He chairs the Judiciary Committee and also serves on the International Relations Committee. The following is from the House floor debate of June 18, 1999, on the Conyers amendment to H.R. 2122, the Mandatory Gun Background Check Act. The Conyers amendment sought to extend Brady bill background checks to gun shows, regulate firearms transfers at gun shows, prohibit firearms possession…
