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April 11, 2022

(Kansas City, MO) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) hosted a press conference to highlight the $2.5 million in Community Project Funding he was able to secure to create a state-of-the-art substance use treatment center in the heart of Kansas City's UMKC Health Sciences District.

April 7, 2022

(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.

April 7, 2022

(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.

April 5, 2022

(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.

April 1, 2022

(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.

March 31, 2022

(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.

March 30, 2022

(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

March 29, 2022

(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.