The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday held a moment of silence to honor the late Rep. John Lewis. Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, died on Friday. A Democratic member of Congress from Atlanta since 1987, Lewis had announced in December that he had advanced pancreatic cancer. He was 80.

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