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A little over a month ago, I admit, I was angry. Now, I am just plain fed up. I am frustrated.
Once again, Congress has failed to find solutions to the urgent business facing our country, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs and prolonging uncertainty for communities across America.
Today, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II wrote to President Obama to call for a joint task force between the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Education, on the problem of increased suicides among black children. A recent study revealed the rate of suicide among black children has increased in the past few years.
Today, Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II and Congressman Wm. Lacy Clay applauded President Obama's decision to curtail the distribution of some forms of military-style equipment and to add stricter controls on other transfers. After months of study, the White House Law Enforcement Equipment Working Group Report released a list of military hardware that local law enforcement will be prohibited from securing with federal funds or from federal agencies.
Dear Friends,
A while ago, I spent a great deal of time thinking about and grieving over the situation with Richard Incognito and Jonathan Martin of the Miami Dolphins. As many surely know, the voicemail messages that Incognito, who is white, left for Martin, who is African American, include racial epithets and other vile statements. Appropriately, Incognito was suspended from the Dolphins. Martin was so impacted by the bullying that he has quit the team and walked away from a multimillion dollar contract.
On the Farm and in Committee
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Congressman Cleaver joins Commissioner Bowen at Garrett Riekhof's |
A Busy Week Back in Missouri's Fifth District
WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II is helping lead the fight to give hardworking Americans a long-overdue wage increase by raising the federal minimum wage. Last week, Rep. Cleaver signed on as an original cosponsor of the Raise the Wage Act to raise the Federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $12.00 by 2020. The bill, introduced in both the House and Senate, would also gradually eliminate the subminimum tipped wage system and index the Federal minimum wage to keep pace with the rising median wage.
Using Words, Not Weapons
This week, I was honored to visit two local schools: Wendell Phillips Elementary and James Bridger Middle School.
Joyce Neal, Principal Deloris Brown, and Mr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of Kansas City School District welcomed us to their school, in connection with the Central Bank of Kansas City's Teach Children to Save lesson. Also present to help was Mr. Bill Dana, CEO Central Bank of Kansas City, who helped create this pilot program to contribute to financial education and literacy in our urban KC schools.
Today, Congressman Cleaver released this statement in response to the protests and unrest in Baltimore, Maryland:
Dear Friends,
During the spring of 1692, a small group of girls in Massachusetts township called Salem convinced their parents and village leaders that they were possessed by the Devil. But as ridiculous as the claim of demonic possession may sound, the madness metastasized as the girls identified women of the village who they claimed practiced witchcraft. Like an airborne virus, witchcraft hysteria spread across what we know today as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.