“Congress on Thursday will bid goodbye to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the Democratic Party’s most influential figures at a tumultuous time in American politics,” Politico reports.
“The late Oversight Committee chairman — who represented his majority-black Baltimore district in the House for two decades — will become the first African American lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol, an honor bestowed to only a few dozen statesmen, presidents and military leaders throughout U.S. history.”
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