{"id":177335,"date":"2019-10-17T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/17\/damn-4\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T02:24:00","slug":"damn-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/17\/damn-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Cummings, who was my Congressman from 2001 through 2004, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/politics\/bs-md-pol-cummings-dies-20191017-bbwnrp72nndejatug3v7rj2zga-story.html\">has just died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings \u2014 the son of sharecroppers who rose to become a House committee chairman and Baltimore icon \u2014 often spoke of the need to leave a legacy for \u201cgenerations unborn,\u201d but said he was unsure how his own contributions might be remembered.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI\u2019m here for a season and a reason,&#8221; the veteran Democratic lawmaker said this summer in his Capitol Hill office, sitting below framed photographs of civil rights leaders Nelson Mandela and Coretta Scott King. &#8220;I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m here, I don\u2019t know how long I\u2019ll be here, but I\u2019m here. And I\u2019m going to make the best of it.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Colleagues defined Cummings\u2019 legacy as his devotion to Baltimore and civil rights, and his adherence to civility in a fractured political climate, even as he pursued an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump from his role as chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Cummings, 68, died about 2:45 a.m. Thursday due to complications from longstanding health problems. He was a patient of Gilchrist Hospice Care, a member of his staff said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seeing as how his committee, House Oversight and Reform, is one of 3 taking point on the impeachment investigation, his successor could make a big difference in what happens in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>On an interim basis, it will be Carolyn Maloney (NY), and given the nature of the House, she is the odds on favorite to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>I have no clue as to what this means in terms of the impeachment though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elijah Cummings, who was my Congressman from 2001 through 2004, has just died. U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings \u2014 the son of sharecroppers who rose to become a House committee chairman and Baltimore icon \u2014 often spoke of the need to leave a legacy for \u201cgenerations unborn,\u201d but said he was unsure how his own contributions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,560,507],"class_list":["post-177335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-impeach","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}