Emanuel Cleaver

This is a holiday season that generally captures the attention of just about everybody in this country.

Sometimes, our discussions on the issues of homelessness can become extremely technical... but we cannot lose sight-- we must not lose sight of the fact that this discussion today is about real people--real stories.

All that is needed is for somebody to make an allegation.

This body and Washington always overreacts to everything.

It is irrelevant about whether or not it is a difficult case to make; it is the allegation that does the damage.

First, let me associate my comments with those of my colleague Mr. Westmoreland. Mr. Speaker, on each Wednesday night for probably the last 10 or 12 years, our church has provided food for those who are struggling. Not long ago a gentleman…

Thank you for allowing me to provide testimony on the tragedy that occurred in my home State and throughout the Midwest this past summer.

Let me first thank the gentlewoman from Alabama for her vision in speaking of one of America's great men. Shortly after Martin Luther King was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, I, just leaving college, became very active with the Southern…

And we can with the infrastructure bank. But we've got to put enough money in the bank to attract the private sector dollars. And that's a part of the President's plan, and hopefully people will buy into it. But I don't think we have a lot…

I thank the vice chair of the CBC. And to follow Congressman G.K. Butterfield, who I think hit on all of the proper and necessary areas of concerns, it has been written that ours will be the last generation in this country to experience…

What is generally said is that you get, four to one, jobs to money spent if we do infrastructure projects, and those jobs are long lasting. Now, most of the infrastructure in this country is in decrepit condition. Most of the storm water…

These laws are reminiscent of the poll taxes used in the Jim Crow South.

Requiring voters to provide a specifically narrowly defined piece of photo identification is unnecessary.

I'm disappointed in the way the debate went. We had a fact-free debate.

I want to give kudos to the -- to the Tea Party members because they pretty much had their way.

Well, if you pick up the first sheet and start delving into the bill, you'll see that there is nothing in the bill that would garner the support of any of the great religions of the world.

It's a bad bill. I voted 'no' after 250 something votes had already been registered so I knew that the bill was going to pass.

I don't know of a single Democrat who voted for this bill who thought it was a good bill.

I think the American public and, in fact, the world probably won because we didn't blow up the U.S. economy and bring down the world economy with us.

Some Democrats today in a meeting with Vice President Biden, there are reports that some of their complaints were saying the Republicans were negotiating like terrorists.

In the committee report for this bill, the appropriations committee included some language expressing concerns in regard to the Environmental Protection Agency's Urban Waters Initiative and provides no funding in the bill for this program…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 2, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $3,000,000)''. Page 65, line 19, after the dollar amount…

Communities across the country are coming together, working with the EPA, State and local agencies, and taking steps to access, restore, and benefit from their urban waters and the surrounding lands. My Missouri 5 District, a large section…

This is a very sad time for me and, I hope, for others. Unemployment is at 9.2 percent. For African Americans, it's at 16.2. If you use the Labor Department's U6 standards, it's almost 30 percent. And all we want to do here is…

Let me first of all express appreciation to Congresswoman Donna Christensen, Dr. Donna Christensen, for how she has put forth boundless energy making sure that we keep this issue of joblessness in front of us. Let me first of all say that…