Emanuel Cleaver

My point is, 50 percent of your employees say that they are dissatisfied, and 90 percent of the people say they are dissatisfied with us.

I am concerned about the fact that for something of this significance, why we wouldn't have someone here from the Labor Department.

the Federal Government leans to the East Coast in almost everything, including spending.

I was on the city council in 1990 and elected to mayor in 1991, and President Bush--and it is little discussed--President Bush, the first, promoted and eventually signed into law one of the best-kept secrets of HUD, I think.

I just think--you know, I was in a parade on Saturday. And one person, as I was walking down the street, only one person out of maybe 3,000 wouldn't take my candy.

The President can't--if the President says I have a black suit on, he is going to be criticized in a few hours.

We have become in a sense a fact-free environment.

No matter what our ideology is, political affiliation or fussiness, facts tend to be extremely obstinate.

It was one of the amazing moments in Congress.

If we discontinue the Ex-Im Bank, we are actually withdrawing from what most of the western world is doing.

I regrettably missed votes on May 20th and May 21st, 2015. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall No. 258, ``yes'' on rollcall No. 259, ``no'' on rollcall No. 260, ``yes'' on rollcall No. 261, ``no'' on rollcall No. 262…

I actually wish--and this will never happen during my lifetime--that all congressional districts could be designed where there is an urban and a rural component.

I think that is why we don't make the kind of progress we need.

Housing is always an important discussion for me, for a number of reasons.

I regrettably missed votes on May 14th and 15th, 2015. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on rollcall vote 225, ``yes'' on rollcall vote 226, ``yes'' on rollcall vote 227, ``no'' on rollcall vote 228, ``no'' on rollcall vote…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. During fiscal year 2016, the limitation…

This amendment would waive the limit on total costs for Army Corps projects which are set forth in section 902 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986. The law states that a project cannot be funded by more than 20 percent of the…

As a former mayor, I know--and every mayor in the country knows--there is hardly any partisanship in municipal governments.

Every day you wake up you want that kind of partnership because you want to use the expertise of the private sector.

Everybody just works together.

If we get public-private partnership we don't have to go out and issue bonds or otherwise go into municipal debt.

My experience has been that the public sector has been less than enthusiastic about becoming involved in affordable housing.

That is a real reason for us not only to look at this industry but to protect people as it is growing.

I would argue that the fact that home sales are increasing for manufactured homes is even more of a reason for us to want to be protective of some kind of an industry that is growing. I represent areas in which there are a number of…

the fact that we had the 2008 collapse was due in no small part to the failure to separate commercial banking from investment banking.