Emanuel Cleaver

DemocratDistrict D+12119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score21#329 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Emanuel Cleaver’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-4535 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2217 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2505

Model

v3defaultv2

Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

Signals to watch

What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.

Could pull them toward Republicans · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 11 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 11 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 36, H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 1262 and 6 more.

Keeps them with Democrats · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with House DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.454 (party median -0.393; rank 154 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 1); LCV 100 (avg 96).

Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 21.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Committee on Financial Services
Minority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Housing and InsuranceRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Capital Markets

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

D median

R median

Cleaver

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of -0.454 is 0.06 to the left of the House Democratic median (-0.393).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Democratic average

119th Congress0
House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Swing score for Emanuel Cleaver on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 1An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	21	Entrenched
H.R. 2283Recognizing Community Organizations for Veteran Engagement and Recovery ActSummary on Congress.gov