WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) joined Republican colleagues to ask conferees to strip a Red Flag law provision from the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The members sent a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees expressing grave concern over Sec. 529 of H.R.

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The President and his Administration have repeatedly told us that the border is closed, and the immigration crisis is under control, but in the last month alone, 43,941 illegal immigrants were released into the United States.

That means more illegal immigrants were caught and released into the United States than the entire population of Worth, Mercer, Knox, Schuyler, Holt, Putnam, Scotland, Atchison, and Sullivan counties COMBINED. Apprehensions at the border hit a 21-year high in August and more than 1.2 million illegal immigrants have been apprehended at the border since the...

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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) released the following statement after voting against legislation to raise the federal debt limit. 

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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, liberals blocked taking up the Border Security for America Act of 2021, which Congressman Graves helped introduce in July.

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It’s been nearly 2 years since the first case of COVID-19 was discovered and despite all the flip-flopping from federal officials, we all now have a pretty good idea of what works, what doesn’t work, and how we can best protect ourselves and our families.

Chief among the things that work are the COVID-19 vaccines, which have proven highly effective, particularly at preventing folks from getting severe cases and needing to be hospitalized. Quite frankly, President Trump and his Administration don’t get nearly the credit they deserve for getting the vaccines developed and...

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WASHINGTON, DC – House Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (MO-06) led opposition during today’s markup of Speaker Pelosi’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation spending spree.

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It’s been 20 years now, but it sure feels like yesterday. For those of us old enough to remember, that day is hard to forget. I’d bet there isn’t one among us that couldn’t tell you exactly where we were that day, what we were doing, and how we learned that terrible news.

I was a young Congressman. I had only been in Washington, D.C. just a few months at that point. I remember standing on the House floor waiting for the Speaker to open session up for the day when suddenly security came and whisked him off the floor. It was...

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It didn’t have to be like this. While there are a lot of thoughts and emotions that come to mind when I think about the disaster that we all watched unfold in Afghanistan these last few weeks, I’ll save many of those for a later date. Today, I want to take some time to honor the 13 brave American heroes that were killed in the August 26th terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz of Wentzville, Missouri was just 20 years old when his life was cut short by that cowardly terrorist attack. He had decided to become a Marine in high school,...

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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statement after receiving news that U.S. service members were killed in attacks on Karzai International Airport in Kabul Afghanistan this morning.

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Washington, D.C. - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), along with Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member David Rouzer (R-NC), today requested that the Biden Administration provide the public and the numerous impacted stakeholders a reasonable amount of time to provide input into the Administration’s plans to rewrite the federal rule defining “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act. 

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