Emanuel Cleaver: “I don't understand it.”

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

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

If I have to serve the people who live just outside of Columbia and Jefferson City, then I’ll do that.

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