Emanuel Cleaver

I want to associate myself with my friend from Missouri who said I don't care who gets the purchases.

I thank the gentleman from California. Mr. Speaker, when a nation experiences a tragedy like the one we have just witnessed, it can either further polarize, weaponize, and fragmentize, or it can harmonize and mobilize. The House of…

Sometimes--not all the time, but sometimes--out of chaos we can find our purpose. It is going to be my prayer this night and for the next few nights that this body can see clearly that our purpose is to lead our Nation away from the edge…

I am not sure what it is, but something is wrong with us. It makes me sick to my stomach to see a Presidential campaign that is an embarrassment to most thinking Americans. I can't imagine any parent with good sense who would say to his or…

With a rental affordability crisis looming, it seems to me that we must take a look at everything possible to look at innovative ways in which we can move housing into the 21st century for the American public.

This hearing, I think, provides us with a unique opportunity to compare the housing system of the U.K. with our own.

If we 'sweet juice' Puerto Rico, we are going to have to do it one way or another.

So the truth of the matter is, we are going to pay, one way or another.

Throughout my political career, first as a city councilman, next as a mayor, and now as a Member of Congress... I have passionately advocated for increasing home ownership.

Today, I think the news about the FHA is significantly better than it has been in the past.

I know what the pride of home ownership does. I have seen it.

If you rob a convenience store, you go to jail. If you rob 300 million Americans, you get a cocktail.

I came to Congress, and because of my own experiences, I only had one ambition other than being a Member of Congress, and it was to take leadership in the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance because, experientially, I thought I had…

But those are usually wealthy people.

That's like saying, 'I dare you to rain and wash my house down the cliff.'

I just have one question. My son is in school outside of Los Angeles, and I go out and I see all of these houses built on cliffs.

I think we ought to be intelligent about it.

We have to use the highest level of technology possible and do this remapping.

I regrettably missed votes on January 6, 2016, January 7, 2016, and January 8, 2016. Had I been present I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall vote 2, ``no'' on vote 3, ``no'' on vote 4, ``no'' on vote 5, ``no'' on vote 6, ``yes'' on vote…

I would like to thank Congressman Cedric Richmond of Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District for the leadership he has provided and the direction that he has given on this issue as well.

I am very pleased to be here this morning. On Sunday, November 1, the Kansas City Royals took game five of the World Series from a very good New York Mets team. They beat them in the 12th inning, and they bring the Commissioner's Trophy…

What I am hoping to finish my sentence, if everybody disagrees, it would seem to me that it is logical if we had men and women of good will sit down here and figure out a way to bring some legislation forth to provide relief to the…

We tried and failed, I will admit, to reduce the big banks.

I listened to Ben Bernanke this past Sunday on one of the shows, and he said he thought that the Great Recession was worse than the Depression because of the whiplash that is still being felt.

I do. It is 14 percent.