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Dear Friends,
Back during the “olden” days, as my children describe my high school years in the sixties, the Ohio Art Company launched a new toy called the Etch-A-Sketch. It became the must have toy for me and my younger sisters, and it was quite common to see my fellow high school freshman and I using the magic knobs to manipulate a drawing. If a sketch did not work out, we would simply shake it and begin again.
For more than five years, I have written a weekly commentary treatise promoting the need for an elevation in congressional civility and a denunciation of the notion that compromise means capitulations. Four hundred and thirty-four Members of the House of Representatives receive the weekly congressional communiqué. Hundreds, over the years, from both sides of the aisle, have expressed enlightenment in the ruminations.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Cleaver sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, urging him to structure the upcoming Connect America Fund Phase II reverse auction for broadband access so that funding is made available on a priority basis for fiber to the home networks. Approximately $400 million in funding for broadband in the State of Missouri will be awarded to broadband providers in a reverse auction that is expected to take place in 2016.
Dear Friends,
Stumbling through a Dollar General store, looking for last minute gifts before the holidays, I came across a section that had Magic Stick-Em Glue. I thought, “I’ll use some of this glue to impress others with my handyman skills.” Then finally I thought, “Maybe I can incorporate this when performing wedding ceremonies: instead of saying ‘until death do us part,’ I could say, ‘until the glue wears out.’”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Cleaver is pleased to announce that the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016, more commonly referred to as the omnibus spending bill, includes $22.5 million for police body cameras. In January, Congressman Cleaver wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to promote funding for body cameras as a result of the continual unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, and alleged police misconduct across the country.
As we rapidly approach the holidays, I want to bring something to your attention. On Wednesday, I sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Tom Perez and Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs Dr. Stephen Ostroff, calling on them to investigate slave-peeled shrimp in Thailand, which is entering the United States’ food supply.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Cleaver (MO-05) sent a letter to Secretary of Labor Tom Perez and Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs Dr. Stephen Ostroff, calling on them to investigate slave-peeled shrimp in Thailand, which is entering the United States' food supply. Recent reports from the United Nations, the European Union, the US State Department, and international labor organizations have all detailed the repugnant use of slave labor in the Thai shrimp processing industry.
On Wednesday of this week, I, along with 171 of my colleagues, signed a discharge petition to force a vote on commonsense, life-saving legislation to keep guns and explosives out of the hands of terrorists. Last week, House Republicans voted three times to block the House from debating H.R. 1076, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act. We need to bring this critical legislation immediately up for a vote. The bill would close the dangerous loophole that allows suspected terrorists on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist to legally buy deadly weapons.
Dear Friends,
Art Linkletter, host of the popular 1950’s and 1960’s television show, “People Are Funny”, used to say on his show, “Kids say the darndest things.” Linkletter died in 2010 at the age of 97. His statement regarding kids has become immortal because it was spot on.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Cleaver took action to force a vote on commonsense, life-saving legislation to keep guns and explosives out of the hands of terrorists. After House Republicans voted three times last week to block the House from debating H.R.