Scoop: Reid to lie in state week of Jan. 10

• It serves as a formal opportunity for Washington — including members of Congress and often the sitting president — to pay their respects to the deceased.
• It also allows reflection on his or her life and the policy changes they ushered into law.

Driving the news: Reid, 82, died on Dec. 28.

• His death followed "a courageous, four-year battle with pancreatic cancer," his wife, Landra Reid, announced.
• Barack Obama credited Reid with encouraging him to run for president, as well as passing his signature Affordable Care Act.

The big picture: Both chambers of Congress need to agree to a joint resolution to accord the honor, as well as work with military officials on some of the logistics.

• Aides to top Senate and House leaders did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

• The last president to lie in state in the Rotunda was George Herbert Walker Bush. He did so in December 2018.
• In 2020, former associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state in Statuary Hall, between the Rotunda and House floor.

Editor's note: This story has been corrected to note that George H.W. Bush was the last president to lie in state, not Gerald R. Ford.