The House decided personal letters, statements, and tweets weren’t enough to truly honor the memory of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a true champion of conservatism.
So much so, the chamber decided to honor the Baroness, who died Monday, by unanimously passing a resolution Tuesday night to express “its deep sympathies to the members of the family of the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher and her countrymen.”
Authored by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), H.Res. 141 “honors the legacy of Baroness Margaret Thatcher for her life-long commitment to advancing freedom, liberty, and democracy and for her friendship to the United States of America.”
The resolution also asks Secretary of State John Kerry to “communicate these expressions of sentiment to the family of the deceased and to the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”
H.Res. 141 also instructed the House to adjourn Tuesday “as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Baroness Margaret Thatcher.”
Thatcher was the United Kingdom’s first female prime minister, and was beloved to many in the United States for her work in bringing down the former U.S.S.R. She was very close with then-President Ronald Reagan, so much so that Reagan’s wife Nancy often described the pair as “political soul mates.” Thatcher also gave the eulogy at Reagan’s funeral in 2004.
