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Kansas City – Congressman Cleaver is urging the Speaker of the House to let Members vote immediately on extending emergency unemployment insurance. Twice now Republicans have voted against House Democrats' efforts to be allowed to vote on the extension.
Kansas City - Comments from Congressman Cleaver, U.S. Representative from Missouri's Fifth District, regarding the 50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty, declared by President Lyndon Johnson during the State of the Union address in 1964:
CONGRESSMAN CLEAVER FASTS IN SUPPORT OF IMMIGRATION REFORM
"I have performed weddings and funerals for Ike and his family, and loved him dearly," said U.S. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II. "There is nothing as strong as gentleness, and nothing as gentle as pure strength. Ike was all of that and more. Public service was a part of his very soul and the world is a colder place tonight."