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Article snippet: Hundreds of lawmakers from both parties came together Thursday in the Capitol to honor the late Rep. MORE. One by one, congressional leaders and Cummings’s closest allies paid tribute to the Maryland Democrat, 68, who passed away last week after a lengthy illness and lay in state Thursday outside the House chamber. 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 chairman of the House Oversight and Reform 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 MORE (D-Calif.). “For the children, he wanted a future worthy of their aspirations and true to the values of America.” Conservative Rep. MORE (R-N.C.), former chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus and a close friend of Cummings, acknowledged the seemingly “unexpected” alliance he forged with the liberal Baltimore Democrat. Just a day earlier, Meadows had joined with Republicans protesting the closed-door depositions in the impeachment inquiry. But on Thursday, he was part of a group of both Democrats and Republicans eulogizing the late Oversight committee chairman. Cummings’s capacity to reach across the ai... Link to the full article to read more