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		December 26, 2024

Documents on the organization and powers of the executive branch, presidential policies, current and past presidents. Search text for presidency Browse Documents on the Court's organization and powers, landmark cases, constitutional law, current and past justices. Search text for Supreme Court Browse Documents on Congress's organization and powers, the legislative process, policy, current and past members. Search text for Congress Browse Documents on the U.S. electoral process, political parties and campaigns, voting rights and trends. Search text for elections Browse   Documents on the U.S. Constitution and the rights and issues it has shaped for over two centuries. Search text for Constitution Browse   The final honor of lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda is reserved for presidents, war heroes, and other respected dignitaries. Few members of Congress have received the tribute. One who did was Florida Democrat Claude D. Pepper, who died May 30, 1989. He was the first incumbent House member so honored since Pennsylvanian Thaddeus Stevens, in 1868. Stevens, though not the Speaker, won respect after the Civil War as the House leader and as a champion of equal rights. Former senator Pepper had spent the last of his eighty-eight years as a champion of the elderly.  more...

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