Emanuel Cleaver: “I was in here when Ben Bernanke, Christopher Cox, Sheila Bair, and Henry Paulson walked in to tell us that the financial…”

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

Mandela would have been a political prisoner?

It was rewarding to those of us who were on the committee to just come to a meeting and see that there was no name-calling, no screams across the aisle.

I rise in support of H.R. 6644, also known as the Housing for the 21st Century Act. This legislation... would streamline regulations, expand affordable housing financing, and modernize Federal housing programs to significantly expand the…