![Photo of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO5]](/static/legislator-photos/400639-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Cleaver is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Cleaver has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to May 20, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Emanuel Cleaver II sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Cleaver was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 6328: FinCEN Exam Delegation Study
- H.R. 1877: Security Screening During COVID-19 Act
- H.R. 4104 (116th): Negro Leagues Baseball Centennial Commemorative Coin Act
- H.R. 1454 (113th): To make supplemental agricultural disaster assistance available for fiscal years 2012 and 2013, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 6198 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1700 Cleveland Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, as the “Reverend Earl Abel Post Office Building”.
- H.R. 3572 (110th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4320 Blue Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri, as the “Wallace S. Hartsfield Post Office Building”.
Does 6 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Cleaver sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Finance and Financial Sector (31%) Housing and Community Development (20%) Health (11%) Transportation and Public Works (11%) Education (9%) Armed Forces and National Security (6%) Government Operations and Politics (6%) International Affairs (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Cleaver recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 7733: CDFI Bond Guarantee Program Improvement Act of 2022
- H.R. 6880: Choice in Affordable Housing Act of 2022
- H.Con.Res. 67: Expressing the sense of Congress that passengers in motor vehicles should be educated …
- H.R. 6328: FinCEN Exam Delegation Study
- H.R. 5767: Risk Management for Derivatives Clearing Organizations Act
- H.R. 5750: Cady Housh and Gemesha Thomas Student Suicide Prevention Act of 2021
- H.R. 5208: Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area Reauthorization Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2005 to May 2022, Cleaver missed 627 of 11,725 roll call votes, which is 5.3%. This is much worse than the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
