Emanuel Cleaver

I have never seen a President meddle in the Federal Reserve as this President has, and it is deeply disturbing.

Congress shall form the grand inquisition of the Executive branch. I think that my children's children, and even their children, will study this era and say: That is when it got started.

I think that free speech has to be practiced even when it is abhorrent.

Churchill said that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes.

I am afraid for our country. I mean, we have entered an age where people respect an alternative truth.

A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes.

The Federal Government has a bad record as well.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 64, line 18, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $6,500,000)''. Page 68, line 21, after…

I am thankful for the opportunity to speak today on my amendment. In recognition of the escalating severity of youth suicide rates in the United States and also in my congressional district, I propose a funding increase of $6.5 million for…

This is an important piece of legislation for the people of the Fifth District and for the State of Missouri.

I mean, it was an awful experience that I went through every single week.

I would really, really appreciate it because, with the passing of each week, I become more and more inclined to try to begin a movement to force the Kansas City system into the Federal program.

I go through CLEAR, everything, trying to reduce the fact that somebody sees the name Cleaver and, all of a sudden, I am a member of the Black Panthers, and I am harassed.

I have become almost obsessed with TSOs and the fact that they are woefully, and in my estimation, dangerously underpaid.

Americans ought to be furious at what is going on. We pay these people almost nothing to save our lives every day.

If you don't think there is discrimination, there is no point in trying to stop people from discriminating.

I urge you to authorize higher funding levels for the Low or No Emission Vehicle Program under the Federal Transit Administration.

I believe a successful infrastructure package should not only address transportation and transit infrastructure backlogs and support jobs nationwide but will also enhance infrastructure resilience and prioritize investments that result in…

Further, I encourage you to authorize and make permanent the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) pilot program.

I think ICE needs to be probably--like many other departments, dealt with and improved. But I don't think we shut down ICE or anything else in Homeland.

The day we stopped defending things because it is somebody in the White House that we happen to be connected with is the day that I think we began to move this country forward.

The Black/Brown population in San Francisco has dropped now to about 2 percent because they can't afford to live there.

I wonder where all those people are who used to live on Capitol Hill, all gone.

Is it too much for them to expect not to continue to be hurt?

decisions that include a dangerous and wrongheaded trade and tariff policy that reduces America's income at a rate of $1.4 billion each month according to the Federal Reserve.