'God blessed America and this chamber when we were sent John Lewis.' 'We will miss his character, his conviction and his kindness and this place feels a lot emptier without him,' Rep. Eric Swalwell says, remembering the late Rep. Lewis on the House floor.
The congressman from Georgia, who marched with Dr. King and helped shape modern history, died at age 80. In his decades of public service, Lewis was known for making what he called"good trouble."with a moving moment of silence on the House floor on Monday afternoon.
Members stand as the House of Representatives pays tribute to Rep. John Lewis on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, July 20, 2020.Shortly after the moment of silence concluded, the chamber spontaneously erupted in a round of applause. Several members were seen wiping tears from their eyes as they paid tribute to their late colleague.
“We are all deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague. All of us who served with John know that he always worked on the side of the angels. Now he is with them. May he rest in peace,” Pelosi said in a letter addressed to colleagues earlier on Monday.Known as the"conscience of the U.S. Congress," Lewis spent over three decades in the House of Representatives after rising as a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi makes her way to the House Floor for a vote in Washington, July 20, 2020.In her letter to colleagues, Pelosi said the Lewis family will announce plans for “John’s farewell” later in the week, after services for the Rev. C.T. Vivian, another prominent civil rights icon who also died last week, have concluded.“The last conversation I had with him was on Thursday. And that was a sad one. I didn't know it was the last.
"I know that if he was still with us, he would be leading that fight," Bass said of the Georgia congressman.
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