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

EE.UU.. 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.

Cummings will join a rare group to “lie in state,” meaning his coffin will be…LEER MÁS