Emanuel Cleaver: “I would really, really appreciate it because, with the passing of each week, I become more and more inclined to try to…”

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

We are just tearing apart a district in order to satisfy someone's desire for reelection.

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

as I sat on the bed this morning, trying to get up, I received a phone call to tell me that Congressman Bill Clay had just passed. I sat there for a few minutes, feeling sad. Then it occurred to me that death is not the greatest loss in…