WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: (Kansas City, MO) - Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) released the following statement on yesterday's vote in the House of Representatives to vacate the speakership. "Yesterday, I had an outpatient procedure related to a recent knee replacement, which caused me to miss last night's vote on the motion to vacate the speakership. "Had I voted, I would have joined the vast majority of Am  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: (Kansas City, MO) - Last week, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (MO-05) celebrated the Kansas City Farmers Market Passport Launch and Urban Farming Expo, highlighting the local impact of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) recent designation of Kansas City as an Urban Agricultural Hub. "When I sought designation for Kansas City to be an Urban Agricultural Hub, this is what I envisi  more

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. led a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the omission of 'rendering' from the Administration's Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics ("Draft Strategy"). Rendering is the practice of recycling leftover animal scraps from protein  more