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'Our country has lost a giant.' Elijah Cummings is first African-American lawmaker to lie in state
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7607669/Rep-Elijah-Cummings-lie-state-US-Capitol-ceremony.html ^ | October 24, 2019 | Geoff Earle

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 2020election; baltimore; corrupticrat; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; elijahcummings; geoffearle; giantcrook; giantpos; goodriddance; maryland; mayarockeymoore; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: samtheman

Oh man...thanx


81 posted on 10/24/2019 12:20:22 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Da Coyote

Accurate description, but Hank Johnson was the moron who said Guam was going to tip over.


82 posted on 10/24/2019 12:21:28 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: servantboy777

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.


83 posted on 10/24/2019 12:24:08 PM PDT by samtheman (Never underestimate The Stupid on the left... or the evil in the heart of a bureaucrat.)
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To: Bonemaker
He's good.

Members of congress rate a flag if they are lying in state.

84 posted on 10/24/2019 12:27:37 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: cgbg

Our country has lost a giant...........corrupt progressive socialist democrat scumbag. And that’s the best thing I can say about him. Good riddance.


85 posted on 10/24/2019 12:28:27 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: COUNTrecount

That’s the cleverest way of calling someone fat I’ve ever heard of.


86 posted on 10/24/2019 12:30:33 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: COUNTrecount; All

God removed Cummings for breaking this command :
Psalm 105:15 saying, “Don’t touch my chosen ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”


87 posted on 10/24/2019 12:30:54 PM PDT by Jedediah (The Keys to The Kingdom it)
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To: cgbg

Probably a lot of lies too.


88 posted on 10/24/2019 12:32:21 PM PDT by Rannug (When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.l)
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To: Da Coyote

Nope...wrong dumbass.


89 posted on 10/24/2019 12:34:33 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: COUNTrecount

He also lied in Congress as well as state .Good riddance!


90 posted on 10/24/2019 12:37:17 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: COUNTrecount

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.


91 posted on 10/24/2019 12:45:40 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: WKUHilltopper

92 posted on 10/24/2019 12:55:12 PM PDT by COUNTrecount ("I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is." -- Donald Trump)
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To: COUNTrecount
"This nation has lost a giant."

A giant piece of you know what, was my first thought.

93 posted on 10/24/2019 1:07:05 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: CMailBag
I thought ‘Baghdad’ Juan Williams was going to have an organism this morning.

Juan did go into paroxysms of adulation in his paean to Cummings.

94 posted on 10/24/2019 1:08:22 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: COUNTrecount

A giant grift machine.


95 posted on 10/24/2019 1:11:59 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

A giant, corrupt sack.


96 posted on 10/24/2019 1:13:29 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reefucation Camp???)
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To: COUNTrecount

That’s Rep. John Lewis being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Not Cummings.


97 posted on 10/24/2019 1:17:43 PM PDT by coop71
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To: COUNTrecount

(I’m sure someone has already posted this but...) Well, he lied everywhere else he’s been.


98 posted on 10/24/2019 1:17:55 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (Phuque all Democrats.)
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To: COUNTrecount

A giant partisan pain in the ass.


99 posted on 10/24/2019 1:18:34 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: yarddog

Agree


100 posted on 10/24/2019 1:19:53 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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