Emanuel Cleaver

I am hoping that the same thing can happen in every department.

Sometimes you just have to say enough is enough. I stand before you today in the hopes that we can come together and understand that today is that day. Enough is enough. Federal unemployment insurance must be extended--and extended…

Yes, I would agree. But what you do is that you revisit any of the rules that became an impediment to the game, which is not what we are doing. You want to make the rules better. The problem is that instead of making the rules better, we…

Due to a medical procedure, I was unable to vote the week of January 13, 2014. On Monday, January 13, had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on rollcall vote 12 (H.R. 1513), and ``yes'' on rollcall vote 13 (S. 230). On January 14…

Due to a medical procedure, I was unable to vote the week of January 7th. On Tuesday, January 7, I would have voted ``present'' on rollcall vote No. 1 (Quorum). On January 8, I would have voted ``yes'' on rollcall vote No. 2 (H.R. 721)…

Recently someone said to new EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy that she was not living in the read world with regard to climate change. My question today is if those who are questioning whether she lives in the real world would say the same…

My son played basketball at Dillard University. I went down to see his games as often as I could. On one occasion, we were driving around in his car, we were at a busy intersection, and the car stops. I didn't know what was wrong, but…

2 days ago, what one newspaper called perhaps one of the gentlemen of Congress, Ike Skelton, died here in Washington. For those of us here in the Missouri delegation, as well as those who were involved with Congressman Skelton on the Armed…

Later today, the WRRDA bill will come before this body. I intend to vote against it. The reason is that there are 23 earmarks in it. I support all of those projects, but I don't have an earmark in it--and I want one. I am not one of those…

On September 20, 2013, I was hosting President Obama and Ford Motor Company President Allan Mulally in Missouri's 5th Congressional District, which I have the honor of representing in Congress. We were at the world-class Ford Claycomo…

I was unable to vote on rollcalls 477-483. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on the Motion to Recommit H.J. Res. 59. Had I also been present on H.R. 1526, I would have voted ``no'' on Amendment 1, ``no'' on McClintock…

I have only 1 minute, but I would imagine 1 minute is sufficient to plead with my colleagues to pay attention to the facts. The U.S. economy has not healed. We are still struggling with $7.25 an hour for minimum wage. And if you make $7.25…

I probably don't need 5 minutes to say what I would like to say. This is a very sad moment for the most powerful Nation in the history of this planet. We are on the verge of a government shutdown over ideology. I can remember in 1995, I…

My first babysitter was the Reverend Noah Albert Cleaver, my great-grandfather. He took care of me and my oldest sister every day after preschool. He lived to be 103 years old. I was in college when he died. My grandpa, born in Cherokee…

While the public is split 50-50 on whether the science of climate change is settled, there is overwhelming agreement--over 97 percent--among climate scientists that the human activity of this Earth is causing climate change. Imagine if we…

I say congratulations to Ms. Sewell and Mr. Bachus. I had returned home from a movie. If we went to church, we had the opportunity to do other things; and I went on to church, and so my parents allowed me to go to the movies. When my…

I think if Fannie and Freddie are to persist, either in government-sponsored form or in privatized form, we are going to have to build into--we are going to have to let them have capital, first, to protect taxpayers against loss in either…

I think it was Warren Buffett, I am not sure--I don't think I missed a single meeting when we were dealing with Dodd-Frank.

So they don't have to retain 5 percent, correct?

This is one of the committees, I think, where there is an attempt to avoid having fact-free debates.

If we give up our power to change things, we do so because we are blaming instead of fixing.

I don't particularly like the bill that is going to come to the floor, but I am going to vote for it. And the reason is, stumbling through one of those Dollar General stores looking for some last minute gifts, I stumbled across a section…

We are here today in an unprecedented show of bipartisanship with this piece of legislation. H.R. 6364 is the product of both sides of the aisle working together to do what is right to honor the memory of our veterans. I especially want to…

One of the reasons I rarely come to the floor to make such comments is that it is so troublesome to me that we will have fact-free debates. One of the problems is that we are talking in a parallel universe. There are small businesses that…

The committee has examined the case and reached a conclusion. The subject of the investigation has agreed to accept responsibility and, in fact, has affixed her name to the findings as a confirmation of such. As a supporter and colleague…