U.S. Representative — Missouri's 6th District

Sam Graves

Republican · Missouri

Republican U.S. Representative for Missouri's 6th congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Legislative Record

Recently sponsored bills (50 on record)

H.R.9497 — Water Resources Development Act of 2026 (Reported, Jun 29, 2026)
H.R.8870 — BUILD America 250 Act (Reported, May 19, 2026)
Building Unrivaled Infrastructure and Long-term Development for America's 250th Act or the BUILD America 250 Act This bill authorizes federal surface transportation (highway, public transportation, and rail) programs and activities through FY2031. The bill also establishes or modifies Department of…
H.R.7613 — ALERT Act (Introduced, Feb 20, 2026)
Airspace Location and Enhanced Risk Transparency Act of 2026 or the ALERT Act This bill addresses aviation safety by increasing requirements for aircraft tracking and communication using Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology and expanding oversight. As background, ADS-B for…
H.R.7328 — Protecting Small Businesses from Predatory Website Lawsuits Act (Introduced, Feb 3, 2026)
H.R.6086 — Aviation Funding Solvency Act (Reported, Nov 18, 2025)
Aviation Funding Solvency Act This bill provides continuing appropriations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) if (1) an appropriations bill for the FAA has not been enacted before a fiscal year begins, or (2) a law making continuing appropriations for the FAA is not in effect…
H.R.5301 — PIPES Act of 2025 (Reported, Sep 11, 2025)
H.R.4924 — Rails to Trails Landowner Rights Act (Introduced, Aug 8, 2025)
H.R.4669 — FEMA Act of 2025 (Reported, Jul 23, 2025)
Fixing Emergency Management for Americans Act of 2025 or the FEMA Act of 2025 This bill reestablishes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (currently within the Department of Homeland Security) as an independent, cabinet-level agency. It also makes broad changes to FEMA’s disaster and…

Recent floor votes (100 on record)

Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.113 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
Voted Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Agreed to, Jul 22, 2026)
Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)

Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)

H.R.7953 — FAIR ACT (Introduced, Jul 20, 2026)
H.R.9780 — To direct the Secretary of Defense to meet certain requirements relating to the divestment, preservation, and inventories of A-10 aircraft, and for other purposes. (Introduced, Jul 20, 2026)
H.R.1628 — 761st Tank Battalion Congressional Gold Medal Act (Introduced, Jun 10, 2026)
H.R.8359 — To change the address of the postal facility designated in honor of Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. (Reported, May 19, 2026)
H.R.7746 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8390 North Broadway in St. Louis, Missouri, as the "Chuck Stone Post Office". (Introduced, Apr 16, 2026)
H.R.1237 — PANELS Act (Introduced, Mar 5, 2026)
H.R.1592 — SOLAR Act (Introduced, Mar 5, 2026)
H.R.7296 — SAVE America Act (Introduced, Feb 9, 2026)

Voting analysis

Sam Graves's filing list reads like a committee calendar. A Coast Guard authorisation. A water resources development act. An emergency management agency act. An infrastructure bill. He chairs Transportation and Infrastructure, and four of his five entries are the major authorising vehicles that committee produces on a fixed cycle.

Most chairs on this site show something else in their filings — a district measure, a pet subject, a commemorative act. His shows the committee and almost nothing but. Transportation dominates his classified subjects to match.

272

Bills sponsored

2061

Bills cosponsored

Of the 50 most recent of those, 39 currently sit at Introduced.

Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Sam Graves's cluster into: Transportation and Public Works (17), Emergency Management (4), Government Operations and Politics (4), Health (4), Energy (3), Science, Technology, Communications (3).

The absence rate

He misses a larger share of votes than nearly anyone else measured on this site. In a body where most members are present for almost everything, his figure stands well apart, and it is worth stating plainly because the ranking below makes it look like an ordinary variation rather than the outlier it is.

This page cannot say why. Illness, travel, committee obligations and choice all produce identical rows in a vote table.

10.0%

Roll calls recorded as not voting

220

Roll calls eligible to vote on

Recorded as not voting

Where he broke ranks

Only four times. Three amendment votes, all lost, and one completed measure: the territorial students' higher education bill, which he voted down and the chamber carried.

2.0%

Votes against the Republican majority

198

Roll calls where a party majority formed

165 of 218

Rank among House Republicans, most defections first

All 4 roll calls where Sam Graves voted against the House Republican majority.
Roll call	Date	Outcome	Their vote
H.R.8595 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 241	Jul 15, 2026	Failed	Aye (party: Nay)
H.R.7567 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 147	Apr 30, 2026	Failed	Aye (party: Nay)
H.R.6472 Territorial Student Access to Higher Education Act On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended · roll call 82	Mar 4, 2026	Passed	Nay (party: Yea)
H.R.7148 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 44	Jan 22, 2026	Failed	No (party: Yea)

Below the Missouri Republicans

Missouri's six House Republicans hold a far higher shared rate than his own.

Among the 6 Republicans in the Missouri delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 6.3%. Sam Graves is below that average at 2.0%.

Tenure

Thirteen terms, running from the opening of this century.

First elected in 2001, now serving across 13 terms. Sam Graves falls in the veteran cohort.

By the numbers

In the 119th Congress, Sam Graves has 272 bills sponsored, 2061 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.

Committee assignments

House Committee on Armed Services
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (Chair)
House Committee on Armed Services: Tactical Air and Land Forces

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