Emanuel Cleaver: “I agree that it is--we are not there yet.”

I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for the motion to recommit and opposing this sham bill.

Let me begin by stating some very related facts. First and foremost, I am a proud United Methodist. In fact, I am an ordained United Methodist elder. I served one church for 38 years as pastor. The church, St. James United Methodist…

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

we can be mad, we can cuss - we're three votes down. That's the reality.