Emanuel Cleaver: “Americans can go to North Korea. We can go to Russia. We can go to Venezuela. We can't go to Cuba.”

Too often, families of hostages, prisoners, even senior congressional leaders cannot get answers from the State Department.

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Cleaver of Missouri moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3564 to the Committee on Financial Services…

blind, and sometimes even mean-spirited, political decisions that those who perpetuate it could easily deny it.

It was rewarding to those of us who were on the committee to just come to a meeting and see that there was no name-calling, no screams across the aisle.