Under the proposed map, Kansas City voters would be split into the 4th, 5th and 6th Congressional Districts. Cleaver's 5th District would extend hundreds of miles east to central Missouri, while the 4th District would stretch from downtown Kansas City to the Ozarks region.

The Missouri House on Tuesday approved a Republican plan to overhaul the state’s most visible form of direct democracy by making it harder for voters to amend the Missouri Constitution.

Democratic state House members denounced the map as a power grab and Republicans yielding to President Trump’s wishes, but with the party in a significant minority in both houses of the Legislature, ...