Emanuel Cleaver: “I yield myself 10 seconds to just say, when progress is made, someone is always left behind. And my concern is that it's…”

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

What I am wanting you to help me fix that in my mind is the difference--because of what is going on right now--and with Hamas. What is the difference between a political prisoner and a hostage?

I missed something because I didn't know that the Biden administration was involved in this debate or had any involvement at all with this discussion. At the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee…

This important legislation would pull one small but very powerful lever that I believe would facilitate greater collaboration in the Halls of the House.