Harry Reid to lie in state at Capitol Rotunda next week
WASHINGTON » Harry Reid, one of the longest-serving Senate majority leaders in U.S. history, will lie in state next week in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Sunday night.
The tribute, including an invitationonly ceremony, will take place on Jan. 12, the two leaders said in joint statement.
“Senator Harry Reid was a titan of public service, who for more than four decades fought relentlessly for working families like his own,” Pelosi said in the statement.
Schumer said that Reid “will be remembered as a great American, father, husband, Senate leader and one of history’s most devoted fighters for the people of Nevada and the poor and middle class throughout the country.”
Reid, who retired from the Senate in 2016, died Dec. 28 at his home in Henderson, Nev. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2018.