Emanuel Cleaver: “Do you think that these trade wars have ever worked? Discuss Smoot-Hawley, 1930. Did that work?”

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

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?

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

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…