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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Oh man...thanx
Accurate description, but Hank Johnson was the moron who said Guam was going to tip over.
I love the deadpan response of the military officer, saying how they hadn’t really considered that.
I also love the lead-up to the Grand Question, when dumbo struggles with the whole concept of dimensions.
Members of congress rate a flag if they are lying in state.
Our country has lost a giant...........corrupt progressive socialist democrat scumbag. And that’s the best thing I can say about him. Good riddance.
That’s the cleverest way of calling someone fat I’ve ever heard of.
God removed Cummings for breaking this command :
Psalm 105:15 saying, “Don’t touch my chosen ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”
Probably a lot of lies too.
Nope...wrong dumbass.
He also lied in Congress as well as state .Good riddance!
With his passing the world gets a little smarter and heals a little bit. This guy was nothing but a partisan skunk and not worthy of any eulogy.
A giant piece of you know what, was my first thought.
Juan did go into paroxysms of adulation in his paean to Cummings.
A giant grift machine.
A giant, corrupt sack.
That’s Rep. John Lewis being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Not Cummings.
(I’m sure someone has already posted this but...) Well, he lied everywhere else he’s been.
A giant partisan pain in the ass.
Agree
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