Posted on 10/24/2019 10:49:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Hundreds of lawmakers from both parties came together Thursday in the Capitol to honor the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, the son of sharecroppers who rose to become a giant of the Democratic Party and a principal figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump.
One by one, congressional leaders and Cummings closest allies paid tribute to the Maryland Democrat, 68, who passed away last week after a lengthy illness and lay in state Thursday in Statuary Hall, the old House chamber in the Capitol.
It was a rare display of comity for a Congress thats been entrenched for weeks in a partisan battle over impeaching Trump a process to which Cummings, who served as the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, was central.
Cummings is the first African American lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol, with his casket sitting atop the black catafalque originally constructed for Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
Elijah was truly a master of the House. He respected its history, and in it he helped shape Americas future, said Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). For the children, he wanted a future worthy of their aspirations and true to the values of America.
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Following the ceremony, members of the CBC banded together around Cummingss casket, wearing kente cloth in solidarity.
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I did not like him, not one little bit.
Now that would be great.
Has the widow been indicted?
I remember Cummings very well. I remember that his words and actions made it clear he hated the white race. That makes him a racist - a black racist. Any argument??
I am in soCal so we suffer thru her now and then.
half the whites in the south are grand-sons of sharecroppers, maybe more than half..
That would be me. Paternal grandparents born during Reconstruction and eked out a living off the land in Kentucky. Poor as church mice til their dying day.
my paternal forefathers came from Ireland as indentured servants to the mountains of Virginia.
Great alright, the greatest piece of racist garbage ever to pollute Capitol Hill.
I would like to see more of these post-death tributes and soon. Soros, Hillary, Pelosi, RBG, Schumer, Schiff, Mad Max, ...
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Yes, and the sooner the better.
One of the biggest scumbags EVER..destroyed Baltimore, didnt give a rats ass about his city and only showed up when it was election time..basically the male version of Maxine Waters
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Well and truly said, and every word of it!
Wishing well for the dead. But it is very telling that he is considered a great one, given how little he accomplished. But compared to some others who get elected through racial gerrymandering, he probably was great.
The swamp monsters love their Swamp Rats.
Give me a break! A stupid crook. Only amassed $1.3mil legacy.
Bet that doesn’t include family members that got in on the goodies though.
Same here but from Ulster in the early 1700’s.
Sorry..., But I call them the way I see them. Cummings began his career with honest intentions but sold out to the Democrats as can be seen by the state of disrepair of Baltimore and in the end sold out his own people.
Did you see thousands of African-Americans paying their respect to Democrat, Low Life, Racist, Elijah Cummings....nope just the thugs and criminals from the Congressional Black Caucus!! Why you ask? Because that S.O.B., Cummings screwed the Black Americans of Baltimore, Maryland from A-Z...period!!! End of story!!! Like Traitor, John McCain, Elijah Cummings got no respect from American blacks and the average Jane & Joe American!!! He got exactly what he deserved!!!
He was an evil man.
Suddenly an adolescent black kid took the seat next to me (an advanced-middle-aged white lady.) Seeing Cummings, the kid nudged me, pointed at the fat roll on the back of Cummings' head, and whispered, "Uncle Phil!" (a character on Will Smith's TV comedy Fresh Prince of BelAir). We both hid titters behind our hands. A wonderful American moment!
"Uncle Phil," played by prolific film and TV actor James Avery, 1945 - 2013,
a USNavy veteran of the Vietnam War.
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