Speaker Pelosi, John Lewis and CBC Members send Rep. Cummings a shout-out from Ghana

[StarfishSaver]

Link to tweet

To @RepCummings with love from Ghana, where we’re solemnly observing 400 yrs since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. Thank you Elijah for fearlessly speaking truth. https://t.co/tEz266LI3U

[Botany]

1. Leadership on display

Isn't this supposed to be her time off? Yet she visits Africa w/what looks like some of
her fellow congresspersons to speak about a shame on America/Europe's past.

[StarfishSaver]

2. So much for that "vacation" they're all supposed to be on

[elleng]

3. More like time away from DC, I think;

Speaker (and other congresspersons) don't really get time off.

[StarfishSaver]

7. Yes

Notice that people complain that Congresspersons are "stuck in the Beltway," but when they leave the Beltway, they're criticized for not staying in Washington?

[elleng]

8. Of course, many feel a need to complain.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. I hate when I'm this shallow, but...

I seriously want her dress!

[panader0]

5. Can anyone name the people from left to right?

I recognize Wilson, is that Pressley?
Of course Nancy and Lewis, and Ilhan.
Did any R(acist)s attend?

[StarfishSaver]

6. L-R

Terri Sewell, Frederica Wilson, Yvette Clarke. Bobby Rush, Karen Bass, Jim Clyburn, Speaker Pelosi, Joyce Beatty, John Lewis, Hank Johnson, Marcia Fudge, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Ilhan Omar.

I don't think any Republicans went on the trip, but all committee-sponsored official CODELs (this was likely sponsored by the Homeland Security Committee) must be conducted on a bipartisan basis, so Republican were surely invited but declined (because "Slavery? Who cares?" ).