People pay tribute to beloved Congressman Elijah Cummings People flock to the US Capitol in Washington DC, to pay tribute to Congressman Elijah Cummings, who died last week at age 68. He was honored with a ceremony in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall before his burial on Friday in his home city of Baltimore, Maryland. Cummings is the first African-American lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol, a symbol of the broad respect and admiration he earned in Congress even as he took on a prominent investigative role in recent months that frustrated members of the Republican Party. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES