Emanuel Cleaver

I don't want to be speaker, I don't want to be assistant speaker, I don't want to be the person in charge of trash, whatever.

You rob a neighborhood convenience store, and you are going to be ostracized and criminalized. You rob America, and you are decriminalized and monetized.

I live here in D.C., not far from the Capitol. My rental payment is significantly higher than my mortgage payment in Kansas City.

I think we are about 7 million units short of affordable rental units.

This is a program to celebrate.

this is a good program and it is working well.

it also ought to be an incentive for us to invest more money in the program.

I would argue that the success numbers are higher than what we officially report.

I could care less whether he was a member of the Oakland Raiders. All I want is a program to work.

I have not heard a single Member here today make a negative comment about the workability of this program.

I regrettably missed votes on Thursday, September 14, 2017. I had intended to vote ``yes'' on rollcall vote 516, ``no'' on vote 517, ``no'' on vote 518, ``no'' on vote 519, ``yes'' on vote 520, ``yes'' on vote 521, ``yes'' on vote 522…

I regrettably missed votes on July 12 through 14, 2017. I regrettably had to attend and preside over the funeral of a good friend and civic leader in Kansas City. Had I been present I would have voted as follows on H.R. 23: ``Yes'' on…

Sometimes this well feels like the well of sorrow, and such is the case today. I rise to honor a true and selfless public servant whose life was tragically taken before his time. Mr. Jeffery Sanders, a lifelong resident of Mayview…

While it is widely known that Horace Peterson of Kansas City was the visionary and sole founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America, it is little known who saved the institution from vanishing years later. During the spring of 1998, Ruby…

Yesterday I spoke with a dynamic, impressive young woman, Maryn White, from Lee's Summit, Missouri. Maryn is a 16-year-old sophomore at Lee's Summit West High School. When she was 10 years old, she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis…

It is extremely disappointing to see that the President's budget would eliminate discretionary funding for FEMA mapping and mitigation activities.

I would like to request the committee's support in providing funding in Fiscal Year 2017 and 2018 for the United States World War I Centennial Commission to carry out the duties and obligations that we in Congress gave them.

I am just desperately asking for consideration that we help fund this commemoration that is so significant to our national history.

I want to especially thank both you, Ms. McCollum and Mr. Simpson for graciously participating in the colloquy on the floor with me last year when I came to express support for the World War I Commission.

I think it will be an embarrassment if we fail to commemorate World War I at the level that our European allies are doing.

I thank the ranking member for allowing me to speak on this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I find much greater satisfaction in working on legislation with the subcommittee chairman, Blaine Luetkemeyer, than opposing such; but, Mr. Speaker, I…

This bill is critical if we are to increase the number of African American young people seeking careers in agriculture and agribusiness.

Yes. I am a graduate of Prairie View.

I may not finish my time. And I dare not get on a plane and go back to Kansas City and conduct myself in a way that everything is fine and we'll all join hands and sing 'Kumbaya' and fix the problem.

Two roads diverged in a woods, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.