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You may have heard that the Obama Administration recently announced it was delaying the ‘employer mandate,' a key component of the Affordable Care Act which requires all businesses with 50 or more employees provide their full-time workers with an affordable healthcare option or face a penalty. While this delay may provide some relief for the Administration, it won't help small businesses that will still have to grapple with this heavy-handed mandate in the near future.
Opportunity for constituents to speak with member of Graves' staff
Sequestration offered Washington a real chance to reduce wasteful spending within the Federal government. Instead, the Obama Administration took advantage of the situation for political gain.
On July 3, 1776, a 41 year-old patriot named John Adams wrote a letter to his wife describing the Declaration of Independence that the Continental Congress would adopt the next day. The future president wrote, "I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means."
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO-6) today joined with Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) to introduce legislation to prohibit discriminatory taxes on the rental of motor vehicles.
Introduces bill to consolidate unnecessary duplicative programs
Says administration's ‘war on coal' will hurt Missouri
MILLER: New taxes penalize gun owners, threaten Second Amendment
By Emily Miller
Washington Times
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
It's a privilege to represent the people of Missouri's 6th District in Congress. From Kansas City to Bethany across to Kirksville and Bowling Green, I enjoy the honor of serving the residents of 36 counties in North Missouri. Part of my job is to keep people up-to-date as to what's happening in Washington. One resource I use is these weekly "Straight Talk with Sam" updates, to highlight a topic of interest or explain legislation I'm working on.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– U.S. Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) announced today that his office is returning $193,763 – or nearly 15 percent of his office's budget – to the Treasury Department for Fiscal Year 2012.