![Photo of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver [D-MO5]](/static/legislator-photos/400639-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2018 Report Card for Cleaver.
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 liberal–conservative 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 6, 2015 to Aug 16, 2019. See full analysis methodology.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Committee Membership
Emanuel Cleaver II sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Financial Services
- Chair, Subcommittee on National Security, International Development and Monetary Policy
- Chair, Subcommittee on National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy
- Member, Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance
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House Committee on Homeland Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security
- House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
Enacted Legislation
Cleaver was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:
- 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 3 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 (27%) Government Operations and Politics (18%) Transportation and Public Works (18%) Education (18%) Health (18%)
Recent Bills
Some of Cleaver’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 4104: Negro Leagues Baseball Centennial Commemorative Coin Act
- H.R. 3778: Cady Housh and Gemesha Thomas Student Suicide Prevention Act of 2019
- H.R. 3757: 1921 Silver Dollar Commemorative Coin Act
- H.R. 3699: Pipeline Security Act
- H.R. 2666: Medicare Access to Rural Anesthesiology Act of 2019
- H.R. 2583: To designate Union Station in Washington, DC, as “Harry S. Truman Union Station”.
- H.R. 2514: COUNTER Act of 2019
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2005 to Jul 2019, Cleaver missed 597 of 10,604 roll call votes, which is 5.6%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% 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
