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 that’s 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 America’s 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 Cummings’s casket, wearing kente cloth in solidarity.
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Navin R. Johnson was the son of a share cropper also.
She lives in one of the most richest areas in Los Angeles(Hancock Park) she only shows up in her district around election time, screaming about how everyone is racist and vote for her, etc etc
'When i die I also want this great Honor and special service'....
sighed, Nancy and Maxine...
lmao
I’d like to honor him, but I suspect that my way of honoring him would not be appreciated - I’m pretty sure they arrest you for urinating in the casket.
And Kasich is the son of a mail man
He was a racist, a crook, and a traitor.
‘One of the greats in our country’s history’
Huhhhh Ya mean you recognize the US as your country?
He sure did a lot to clean up Baltimore.
(wait? what?)
What’s the over/under for future ‘Elijah Cummings Blvds.’ giving ‘Barack Hussein 0bama Blvds.’ a run for the money in crime and homicide in every falling-apart Dem-run city? ;)
“...Elijah Cummings, the son of sharecroppers ...”
Bonemaker, the grandson of sharecroppers...
Wanna know how great he was? Look at the condition of the community in which his constituents live.
Great? What did he accomplish?
Good riddance to some seriously bad trash.....
We need more of the “great ones” to follow him....to hell.
His staff was forging his name on “subpoenas” while he was on his death bed. What a hateful old b@st@rd.
And what exactly did he do to clean up the crime and rat-infested sh*thole know as Baltimore? NOTHING.
If he was white, what would be the eulogy?
He was an “icon”.
Travesty 2,198,582,110,675, in recent memory...
When will it stop?
One of the biggest dog sh*ts ever!
Anyone know what GREAT things he did other then enrich himself?
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