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(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3807, the Relief for Restaurants and Other Hard Hit Small Businesses Act. A cosponsor of the legislation, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) voted in favor of the bill, which would provide $55 billion in urgently needed relief for small businesses throughout Missouri and across the country as they continue to recover from the global pandemic.

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) announced the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) will receive more than $27 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in Fiscal Year 2022 to maintain, upgrade, and expand local transit in the Kansas City Region. Congressman Cleaver helped deliver the funding with his support for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and it comes as part of the law's historic $20 billion investment in transit projects across the nation over the next five years.

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) applauded the Department of Energy's announcement that Missouri will receive a $77 million investment from the Weatherization Assistance Program to weatherize households, increase energy efficiency, and lower utility costs for Missouri families.

(Washington, D.C.) – This week, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) announced he has cosponsored H.R. 7099, the Stop Gas Price Gouging Tax and Rebate Act, which would help to curb profiteering from major oil companies by creating a windfall profit tax on the excessive corporate profits of Big Oil. The revenue created from the windfall profit tax would then be returned to American consumers in the form of a tax rebate, helping to pay for the rise in gas prices.

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) voted in favor of H.R. 6833, the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which would cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin at no more than $35 per month in Medicare Part D and commercial health insurance. With 1 in 4 Americans who rely on insulin admitting to having cut back or skipped doses due to cost, this legislation ensures vital and affordable access to life-saving medication for more than 37 million Americans who have diabetes.

(Washington, D.C.) – This week, U.S Representatives Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Steve Cohen (D-TN), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) co-introduced the bipartisan Cerebral Palsy Research Program Act, which would create a cerebral palsy (CP) research program headed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and provide the first-ever dedicated source of federal funding for CP research. CP is the most common life-long physical disability, occurring in roughly one out of 345 children and approximately one million people in the United States.

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) traveled to the White House for the signing ceremony of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which was signed into law by President Biden and officially makes lynching a federal hate crime in the United States. After the signing ceremony, Congressman Cleaver released the following statement.