Emanuel Cleaver

Do you also agree then that Smoot-Hawley, based on economist, your people that you would respect, agree that it was the Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 that created less confidence in the markets?

Not one person in there believed that this tariff move by the President is good for them.

OK, so if I hit Al Green with my fist, we are not really in a fight, we are in negotiations?

the constitution gives the power of the purse to the Congress, and we are just constantly giving more and more and more

Let me, first of all, thank Chairman Duffy from our subcommittee for working on this significant piece of legislation, as well as the chair and the ranking member of the full committee. I am not going to take long. I think most of the…

I think we have made significant progress. But I think that the report shows that there are about 4 million children in the United States who are still living in and around lead-based paint.

I believe, and I said this in the subcommittee hearing yesterday, that we can fix this problem.

There is a serious danger in lead-based paint.

if we are interested in solving this problem, we ought to do something that would demonstrate that we are interested.

We have over 4 million kids right now who are living in environments where there is lead-based paint.

I am only able to raise my right arm to maybe 50 percent, sometimes not that much, but that is due to shoulder separations from playing football. John McCain cannot raise his arms because he was tortured in Vietnam. I believe that it is…

It is not a question of whether or not these erratically housed families and youth deserve housing assistance.

I want to thank the gentleman from Ohio for taking the lead in this. It is always a very emotional issue with me.

We will never handle homelessness until we envision a Nation without homelessness and try to go there.

In Missouri, 5 out of every 10,000 people are homeless.

I want to begin by saying that there are a lot of things in this farm bill that I actually agree with, and I would like to be supportive of such components of this bill. I agree with and would like to be a partner in getting this bill…

I am thankful that we have this moment that we are using to make some expressions of concern, and I thank Mr. Perlmutter for organizing it. Let me preface my comments, Mr. Speaker, by saying that when President Trump was elected, against…

Having a stable home is a crucial component for children to succeed, for the elderly to thrive, and for our veterans and the disabled to have a place, a safe place to stay.

I agree 100 percent with the concept of your outline of legislation.

the unemployment in the country has, blessedly, dropped significantly. All of us should be happy about it.

Today I rise to speak about a very important issue to my constituents in Missouri's Fifth Congressional District and, frankly, millions of farmers and ranchers all across this great country. Recently, President Donald Trump announced his…

I thank the gentleman from Georgia for yielding. He has pulled us together. Those of us who have been able to work with him over the years, as I have--13 years on the committee--we appreciate the gentleman's work from Georgia's 13th…

Let me, first of all, state the obvious. I am rising to support H.R. 4258, the Family Self-Sufficiency Act. I would like to thank Chairman Duffy for the spirit of bipartisanship that he has demonstrated on this and on other legislation as…

I remain hopeful that this committee will be able to work together in a bipartisan manner to reform the housing finance system.

Any attempt to dismantle it I believe could have a devastating impact on our communities and in the housing market.