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DemocratEmanuel Cleaver
U.S. Representative · Missouri
Missouri's 5th district
U.S. Representative from Missouri
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How they won their seat
Emanuel Cleaver won the 2024 U.S. House election in Missouri (District 5) with 60.2% of the vote (199,900 votes).
- Emanuel Cleaver · Democrat60.2%199,900
- Sean E. Smith · Republican36.4%120,957
- \"William Truman \\"\"Bill\\"\" Wayne\" · Libertarian2%6,658
- 1 Other Candidate1.3%4,414
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Emanuel Cleaver's record includes sponsored bills related to housing access and affordability, such as the 'American Housing and Economic Mobility Act' and the 'Choice in Affordable Housing Act'. He has also participated in the House Committee on Financial Services. Focus areas (from the record): Housing · Community Support · Health Awareness · Financial Services · Education Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The evidence does not provide sufficient information to assess alignment with any declared positions or tracked promises against Cleaver's sponsored bills and committee work. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or intentions behind the legislation; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities or commitments. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Emanuel Cleaver has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2023–2025 term. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Emanuel Cleaver has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$24K2%
- Large individual (itemized)$227K23%
- PAC / committee$730K74%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Capital MarketsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Housing and InsuranceOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
218 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $890,849, spent $767,495, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9048: Celiac Safety Act of 2026 ↗May 29, 2026
- Sponsored HJRES 162: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to the withdrawal of the rule relating to "Truth in Lending (Regulation Z); Consumer Protections for Home Sales Financed Under Contracts for Deed". ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8402: Civics Learning Act of 2026 ↗Apr 21, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8325: Rehabilitation Through Reading Act of 2026 ↗Apr 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8296: Preparing Superfund for Climate Change Act of 2026 ↗Apr 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8002: Fair Wages for Incarcerated Workers Act of 2026 ↗Mar 19, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7309: Reentry Resource Guide Act of 2026 ↗Feb 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7247: Prison Libraries Act of 2026 ↗Jan 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6737: SPUR Housing Act ↗Dec 16, 2025
- Sponsored HR 6621: Workforce of the Future Act of 2025 ↗Dec 11, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 897: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives to support the rights of youth in the foster care system. ↗Nov 20, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5938: Innovation Fund Act ↗Nov 7, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 218 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 265
- Nay
- 362
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 28
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Not voting
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Nay
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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