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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A giant Poster Child for Term Limits
But at least in hell, his island will not top over.
Ignorant dumbass.
All the pallbearers were black servicemen.
Can you imagine the outcry if say Reagan had all white pallbearers?
BARF!!!
Bring in the Fork Lift
Nothing wrong with that. All the trash men in Baltimore are black.
Giant??? Giant fraud. He lied in state as well as out. This grifting SOB is a prime example of what happens when you make a field hand into a house boy.
He’s not the one who said that.
Not that he couldn’t have said it, but he didn’t happen to say it.
Different dumbass.
” Elijah Cummings is first African-American lawmaker to lie in state “
He’s not the first AA to lie in that state, O’bastard lied in all 57 of them!
That was not Cummings. It was Hank Johnson U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 4th congressional district. Still a classic in stupidity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q
I ask, what did Mr. Cummings ever accomplish in his many years of representing the lovely city of Bodymore, Murderland?
He was a disgrace to the country and even worse.
The fact that he is dead doesn’t make him a giant of greatness.
Isn’t “giant” a sort of insult? Giants in legend have a predilection for eating human children.
another baby killer bites the dust.
Who the hell cares.
The man was a damn crook. I’m surprised he didn’t have a procession line of Baltimore rats “honoring” him, and I certainly don’t mean the elected ones from city hall either. To watch all these political criminals “honoring” one of their own is disgusting.
Cummings was the son of sharecroppers. Who like all the other blacks, as soon as Republican Leader MLK Jr was killed, SURRENDERED to the Democrat Slavemaster Party, who they had spent their whole lives fighting.
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