The wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings said her 68-year-old husband “worked until his last breath,” before succumbing to longtime health complications.

Cummings, who was chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, represented his Maryland’s 7th District for 23 years and lived in an inner city neighborhood affected by poverty and crime, until his death early Thursday morning.

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