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The United States Postal Service is one of the only agencies authorized by the Constitution. In fact, the agency can trace its roots back even further to 1775, when Benjamin Franklin was named the first Postmaster General.
For some 247 years, the men and women of the United States Postal Service have been delivering the mail—rain or shine. It doesn't matter where you live—downtown Kansas City, the suburbs, or rural North Missouri—they deliver the mail six days a week. That's the promise.
KANSAS CITY, MO – Congressmen Sam Graves (MO-06) and Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05) authored a letter demanding answers from United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on the Postal Service’s failure to reliably deliver mail six days a week in the Greater Kansas City Area, as required by law.
The price of gas is going up—again.
In case you haven’t heard the news or seen the prices climb at your local gas station yet, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) just announced they’re cutting back oil production by 2 million barrels a day. In other words, President Biden’s attempt to beg Iran, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia to pump more oil backfired, big time. And now, American families are going to have to pay the price.
WASHINGTON, DC – House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (MO-06) and House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) introduced the Transparency and Production of (TAP) American Energy Act this week.
The 2019 Flood was among the worst we’ve ever seen in North Missouri. It didn’t hit as many folks as the 2011 Missouri River Flood or the ‘93 Flood, but unlike many of the floods we’ve seen in the past, the 2019 Flood stuck around for what seemed like an eternity. It took the better part of a year for the floodwaters to fall in some places. That put everyone way behind schedule on rebuilding and recovering.
WASHINGTON, DC – A bipartisan bill led by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (MO-06) to expedite disaster recovery projects across the Nation, particularly in small and rural areas, has passed both the House and Senate and has been sent to the President to be signed into law.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) announced today that the City of Clarksville will be receiving a $1.7 million Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant to construct a removable flood protection system along the Mississippi River to keep businesses open and operating while protecting historic downtown Clarksville. This EDA grant will be matched by $10 million in state funds.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Sam Graves, (MO-06) introduced H.R. 8565, the Rural Hospital Extensions for Low-volume Programs (HELP) Act, to permanently extend two critical programs our rural hospitals rely on—the low-volume Medicare adjustment for small rural prospective payment system hospitals and the Medicare-Dependent Hospital Program.
WASHINGTON, DC – Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republican leader Sam Graves (MO-06) and several of his colleagues today raised concerns about regulatory actions by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) which would expand the breadth of their regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act to regulate “waters of the United States”, or “WOTUS”.