A special service will be held in the Capitol Rotunda, with eulogies by Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to begin speaking in honor of the country’s 39th president around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Members of Congress, the Supreme Court and other dignitaries will gather at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday for a lying-in-state ceremony for former President Jimmy Carter.

The Capitol has a more expansive policy for lying in state. Congressman Henry Clay, in 1852, was the first to lie in the Capitol Rotunda. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover lay in the Capitol in 1972.

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