Posted on 10/24/2019 11:19:53 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
'Our country has lost a giant.' Elijah Cummings is first African-American lawmaker to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol as Congress bids farewell to sharecropper's son who went head to head with Donald Trump
Elijah Cummings' body is lying lie in state at the Capitol - the first time an African-American lawmaker has been given the honor
Congressional leaders including Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at a service in celebration of his life Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said: 'Our country has lost a giant.'
Cummings was the son of sharecroppers. He earned a law degree and became a powerful committee leader and longtime Baltimore Congressman
He used his Oversight post to investigate the Trump administration
Trump attacked Cummings and his district, which he called 'rat-infested,' when he was alive
At a funeral in Baltimore Friday former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton will speak
Elijah Cummings was called 'a giant' Thursday as he became the first African-American lawmaker to lie in state in the dome of the Capitol.
The son of sharecroppers was carried up the steps of the Capitol in a flag-draped coffin by a military honor guard, with his widow Maya Rockeymoore Cummings waiting at the top of the steps, hand on heart.
Inside Statuary Hall, his coffin was placed on the same catafalque used in Abraham Lincoln's funeral.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called him 'truly a master of the House,' and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said: 'Our country has lost a giant.'
The public will be allowed to pay their respects to Cummings later Thursday. Only two African-Americans have lain in the Dome before: Rosa Parks in 2005 and in 1998, Capitol Hill Police officer Jacob Chestnut, murdered by a gunman while on duty along with another officer.
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What did he do?
I agree that ee cummings was a giant. He was also a Republican.
Most were criminals who bilked the taxpayers Out of millions so why are DC establishment pukes so revered? It seems the bigger the crook the bigger the show upon their death.
Giant Race Baiting Poverty Pimp POS
They say it’s not nice to speak ill of the worthless POS hateful ugly (inside and out) asshat leftist Marxist dead but then I’m not a PC person.
Cummings is dead. America is a far better place now that he is gone
His constituency is mostly trash
I think the exchange was scary as hell in that it is these sort of people making decisions for the rest of us.
Good grief!
We have our own Sheila Jackson Lee, Al Green down this way.
Idiot Pelosi said Cummings’ coffin had been placed on a catapult instead of a catafalque.
Hmmm...maybe not such a bad idea afterall; build one big enough, and Rep Cummings could get a proper send-off, right into the Potomoc: https://www.reddit.com/r/trebuchetmemes/comments/72efha/burial_by_trebuchet_the_only_way_to_go/
BTW, the catapult used in that episode of “Northern Exposure” was built by an Air Force Academy grad-turned-dentist who got his undergraduate degree in physics. I think they flung five coffins into the lake to get the footage they wanted. Someone calculated that, if a body was actually in the coffin, it would be pulling 20Gs at the top of the arc.
I don’t remember that epi.
I do remember them flinging Maggie’s burnt piano in lieu of a cow.
I won’t miss the lying ahole!!!!
He was a thief. I am being kind.
That was at Morgan State. The pallbearers who brought Cummings to the Rotunda were of different races. It's not no different from Reagan's or Bush's or other funeral ceremonies. The pallbearers in local ceremonies will be military personnel from the area. For public ceremonies at the Capitol the military takes care to include soldiers, sailors and airmen of different ethnic backgrounds.
Elijah Cummings was an evil man.
A worthless POS being honored by other worthless POSs.
He was signing impeachment documents on his death bed.
What a hateful nasty b@st@rd, seething with hate until he drew his last breath.
There. I fixed it.
He'll fit right in down there with John McNoName.
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