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Emanuel Cleaver

DemocratEmanuel Cleaver

U.S. Representative · Missouri

Missouri's 5th district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Missouri

0 tracked promises

Missouri · Missouri's 5th district

Missouri's 5th district

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Running against

RepublicanJerry Barham
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RepublicanTaylor Burks
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RepublicanSean Smith
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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).

60.2%
Win share
199,900
Votes for winner
331,929
Total cast
  • Emanuel Cleaver · Democrat60.2%
  • Sean E. Smith · Republican36.4%
  • \"William Truman \\"\"Bill\\"\" Wayne\" · Libertarian2%
  • 1 Other Candidate1.3%

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 sponsorship of bills related to housing, community support, and health-related issues, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the 'American Housing and Economic Mobility Act' and the 'Community Paramedicine Act'. His committee assignments include Financial Services, which oversees housing and insurance matters. Focus areas (from the record): Housing · Community Support · Health · Consumer Protection · Education Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Cleaver's sponsored bills and voting record. 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; The absence of declared positions limits understanding of his priorities. 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 2017. 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.

Bills sponsored
1

Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

1bill sponsored
1 awaiting status
01234Bills2017: 1 awaiting status12017

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.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 0 sponsored bills became law

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$987K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$500K$1M$1.5M$2M2026: raised $987K2026: spent $1.0M20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $24K (2%)Large individual (itemized): $227K (23%)23%PAC / committee: $730K (74%)74%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$24K2%
  • Large individual (itemized)$227K23%
  • PAC / committee$730K74%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Verified record

218 sponsored bills · finance on file

Facts 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.

Campaign financeas of Mar 31, 2026

FEC 2026 cycle — raised $890,849, spent $767,495, cash on hand $0.

View the FEC filing ↗

Voting record

Total votes
609
Yea
252
Nay
330
Present
0
Not voting
27

Full voting record

609 votes
120 of 609
Page 1 / 31

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Stated positions

No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.

Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

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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