Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – This month, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Ranking Member of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, was awarded the inaugural Terwilliger Bipartisanship in Housing Award by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy during their annual Summit on Housing Supply Solutions. The J.
(Kansas City, MO) – Today, U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) and Sharice Davids (D-KS) announced that the State Department has selected Kansas City, Missouri as one of six locations for a new U.S. passport agency. Today’s announcement follows Cleaver and Davids’ request for Kansas City to be selected as one of the locations for a new passport agency.
(Washington, D.C.) – This week, U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Ro Khanna (D-CA), James Clyburn (D-SC), and Steve Cohen (D-TN) reintroduced legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights icon Reverend James Lawson Jr., who sadly passed away earlier this month. The lawmakers intend to reintroduce the bill every Congress until it is passed into law.
(Washington, D.C.) - Today, Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) and Harriet Hageman (R-WY) introduced legislation that would require the United States Postal Service (USPS) to protect mail processing centers in communities throughout the nation by mandating individual studies on the consequences of consolidating or closing any such facilities, which is already required before the closure of a storefront post office, but not for Processing and Distribution Centers (P&DCs).
(Kansas City, MO) – Today, U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05) and Sharice Davids (KS-03) visited the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Central Region Headquarters to speak with FAA leadership and jointly address local aviation workers.
(Kansas City, MO) – Last week, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) hosted Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra L. Thompson and community leaders for a roundtable discussion on fair and affordable housing.
(Washington, D.C.) – On Friday, U.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) and Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers in urging the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to take an important step toward improving the transportation of life-saving organs.
(Kansas City, MO) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) released the following statement after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers of thirty-four separate felony counts in New York.
(Kansas City, MO) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) released the following statement after the Supreme Court announced their decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which Rep. Cleaver helped establish through his work in the Financial Services Committee following the Great Recession.
(Kansas City, MO) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) announced that three organizations in Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District will receive more than $1,677,000 in AmeriCorps funding, including federal grants and education awards, to support AmeriCorps members who will boost digital inclusion efforts, improve child literacy, and strengthen public education services. AmeriCorps is the federal agency responsible for national service and volunteerism.