Rep. Cleaver, civility ally, abandons House gavel amid fight
"We don't ever, ever want to pass up, it seems, an opportunity to escalate," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., said from the House speaker's chair Tuesday afternoon after a fight broke out over a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump's "racist tweets." The House went silent as the mild-mannered Cleaver, a seven-term House member, swept a pointed finger across the chamber, saying he dared anyone to say he had been "unfair." "We want to just fight," Cleaver, a pastor, said, balling his fists to demonstrate the exchanges. Then, in a move ...
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