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Elijah Cummings Funeral: Watch Obama, Clinton Eulogize Baltimore's Favorite Son

Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are among the speakers for the congressman's funeral Friday morning.
A military honor guard lays the U.S. flag on the casket of Rep. Elijah Cummings during his funeral service at New Psalmist Baptist Church on Friday in Baltimore, Md. Cummings died last week of complications from longstanding health problems.

If there were any doubts about the indelible legacy the late civil rights advocate and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings left in his nearly 40 years of public service, look no further than the political luminaries who will deliver tributes at his funeral in Baltimore Friday.

Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to speak. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, are slated to read passages from the

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