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By Bill Clark
Posted January 7, 2025 at 4:48pm

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, left, and Majority Leader John Thune are pictured in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday during the rehearsal for President Jimmy Carter’s lying in state ceremony. The 39th president, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100, will lie in state until Thursday.

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