Emanuel Cleaver, II
What this job does: Your district's one vote in the U.S. House. House members write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and every bill to raise taxes has to start in the House. A term is two years.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- U.S. Representative, Missouri's 5th District (since January 2005)
- Occupation
- U.S. Representative; United Methodist pastor
- Lives in
- Kansas City
Background
- Mayor of Kansas City, 1991-1999; Kansas City Council member, 1979-1991. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Pastor of St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, 1972-2009. source: en.wikipedia.org
- B.S., Prairie View A&M University (1972); Master of Divinity, Saint Paul School of Theology. source: en.wikipedia.org
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- Affordable housing (as reported by KCUR) source: kcur.org
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