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      <excerpt>...designate Kansas City&#8217;s Liberty Memorial as the nation&#8217;s official World War I memorial. The resolution introduced by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Kansas City Democrat, also would establish a commission based in Kansas City to organize events marking the </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...current language is far weaker than what I would have preferred, and I think that is also true of the Progressive Caucus,&quot; Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Friday. &quot;But because I did not come up here to parti</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...language is far weaker than what I would have preferred, and I think that is also true of the Progressive Caucus,&quot; Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Friday. &quot;But because I did not come up here to participate i</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...said Nessa Feddis of the American Bankers Association, one of several groups that sent representatives to testify. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., sarcastically thanked industry reps , telling them, &quot;You bypass us as the most hated group in America.&quot; &quot;Do y</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...language is far weaker than what I would have preferred, and I think that is also true of the Progressive Caucus,&quot; Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said Friday. &quot;But because I did not come up here to participate i</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...had served on its board of directors. The investigatory panel will be led by Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla. Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, will be the ranking GOP member, and Reps. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., will be the other members</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Ultimately, though, only one Republican voted for the final legislation. &quot;In the end,&quot; said committee Democrat Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, &quot;we have weakened legislation that the opposition is not going to support.&quot; Jim Kuhnhenn covers economics and pol</excerpt>
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