Colleagues Mourn Millender-McDonald at Capitol Ceremony

By John McArdle
Roll Call Staff

May 17, 2007, 2:46 p.m.

At a partly solemn, partly laugh-filled ceremony in Statuary Hall this morning, House and Senate officials gathered with friends and family of the late Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-Calif.) to celebrate the life of the first black woman to chair a full committee in Congress.

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