Emanuel Cleaver II, Representative for Missouri's 5th Congressional District

Analysis

Our unique analysis of the bills Cleaver has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.

Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Cleaver is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)

2015 Statistics

Read our 2015 Report Card for Cleaver for more statistics.

Committee Membership

Emanuel Cleaver II sits on the following committees:

House Committee on Financial Services
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
- Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Cleaver sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Foreign Trade and International Finance (61%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Crime and Law Enforcement (6%) Sports and Recreation (6%) Health (6%) Transportation and Public Works (6%)

Recent Bills

Some of Cleaver’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

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From Jan 2005 to Sep 2016, Cleaver missed 470 of 8,814 roll call votes, which is 5.3%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. ProPublica has tracked 95 explanations for these missed votes. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2005 Jan-Mar	90	10	11.1%	93^rd
2005 Apr-Jun	272	2	0.7%	26^th
2005 Jul-Sep	146	1	0.7%	26^th
2005 Oct-Dec	163	2	1.2%	29^th
2006 Jan-Mar	81	0	0.0%	0^th
2006 Apr-Jun	276	11	4.0%	76^th
2006 Jul-Sep	159	17	10.7%	94^th
2006 Nov-Dec	27	0	0.0%	0^th
2007 Jan-Mar	213	1	0.5%	19^th
2007 Apr-Jun	393	14	3.6%	72^nd
2007 Jul-Sep	317	6	1.9%	51^st
2007 Oct-Dec	263	17	6.5%	79^th
2008 Jan-Mar	149	2	1.3%	21^st
2008 Apr-Jun	321	6	1.9%	38^th
2008 Jul-Sep	205	6	2.9%	55^th
2008 Oct-Dec	15	1	6.7%	78^th
2009 Jan-Mar	174	4	2.3%	51^st
2009 Apr-Jun	303	4	1.3%	32^nd
2009 Jul-Sep	268	5	1.9%	53^rd
2009 Oct-Dec	246	4	1.6%	33^rd
2010 Jan-Mar	195	14	7.2%	83^rd
2010 Apr-Jun	219	10	4.6%	70^th
2010 Jul-Sep	151	6	4.0%	72^nd
2010 Nov-Dec	99	5	5.1%	61^st
2011 Jan-Mar	212	8	3.8%	85^th
2011 Apr-Jun	281	8	2.8%	73^rd
2011 Jul-Sep	247	3	1.2%	46^th
2011 Oct-Dec	208	6	2.9%	64^th
2012 Jan-Mar	151	23	15.2%	97^th
2012 Apr-Jun	299	10	3.3%	70^th
2012 Jul-Sep	152	11	7.2%	88^th
2012 Nov-Dec	51	4	7.8%	78^th
2013 Jan-Jan	5	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	89	12	13.5%	93^rd
2013 Apr-Jun	215	18	8.4%	91^st
2013 Jul-Sep	200	21	10.5%	93^rd
2013 Oct-Dec	137	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	148	24	16.2%	96^th
2014 Apr-Jun	219	32	14.6%	94^th
2014 Jul-Sep	147	13	8.8%	93^rd
2014 Nov-Dec	49	3	6.1%	85^th
2015 Jan-Mar	144	10	6.9%	88^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	41	16.8%	97^th
2015 Jul-Sep	139	22	15.8%	96^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	10	5.6%	90^th
2016 Jan-Mar	137	34	24.8%	96^th
2016 Apr-Jun	204	3	1.5%	39^th
2016 Jul-Sep	214	6	2.8%	72^nd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
GPO Member Guide for the photo
GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills

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