WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, issued the following news release: This month, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO), Ranking Member of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance, was awarded the inaugural Terwilliger Bipartisanship in Housing Award by the Bipartisan Policy Center's J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy during their annual Summit on Housing Supply Solutions. The J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy establi  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Rep. Jason Smith, R-Missouri, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, issued the following news release: Fewer families suffering from poverty would be unnecessarily separated under legislation introduced by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) and Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-04) that seeks to prevent child removal from homes solely due to poverty. The Preventing Child Welfare Entry Caused by Poverty Act (H.R. 8813) would allow child welfare agen  more