Rep. Elijah Cummings will lie in state on Thursday. What that means and who else has received the honor.

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VSA. Rep. Elijah Cummings will lie in state in the National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, joining a distinguished list of people to receive the honor.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that a formal ceremony for members of Congress and Cummings’ family will be held Thursday morning in the hall. Cummings, a Baltimore Democrat who was battling cancer, who died early Thursday at the age of 68.

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