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WASHINGTON, DC – Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republican leader Sam Graves (R-MO) today raised questions about the diversion of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) resources, workforce, and expertise to deal with illegal immigration and the Biden Administration’s crisis at the southern border.
When I was growing up, saying the wrong four-letter word would earn you a sampling of some fine bar soap. Nowadays though, it seems to be the three-letter government agencies giving Americans trouble—the EPA, the IRS, and even the SEC (no, not that one).
Back in March, I wrote about the devastating impact inflation was having on our infrastructure dollars and how rising prices are threatening to squander that funding. Since then, things have only gotten worse. Inflation just hit 9.1 percent last month with no signs of slowing down. It’s eating away at our infrastructure dollars even more and depleting Americans’ bank accounts. We have to turn this around.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) joined Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS), Representative Tracey Mann (KS-01), and 29 colleagues in calling on President Biden to invoke his authority to waive duties imposed by the Biden Administration on phosphate fertilizer products from Morocco and suspend the process to impose new duties on urea ammonium nitrate imports from Trinidad and Tobago.
It’s been a difficult week for folks in parts of North Missouri. As most have seen or heard by now, the Amtrak Southwest Chief train was in the middle of its regular cross-country route on Monday, that typically stops in Kansas City and La Plata before heading on to Chicago, when it tragically struck a truck and derailed near Mendon, MO in Chariton County.
Several folks were killed and many more were injured. It was a harrowing day and something that we thankfully aren’t used to. However, folks from around North Missouri rose to the moment and showed who we are.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republican Leader Sam Graves (MO-06) joined the Republican Leader of the House Agriculture Committee Glenn “GT” Thompson (PA-15) and Missouri Farm Bureau for a roundtable with local farmers on the Biden Administration’s proposed “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule at the Richardson Family Farm near Camden Point, Missouri.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Sam Graves, Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, released the following statement after today’s fatal Amtrak train derailment in Chariton County near Mendon, Missouri.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statement after voting against S.2938, the Senate’s gun control bill.
I got word late last week that the Biden Administration was trying to force layoffs at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant again. They already tried to cut funding for the plant. This time, they were trying to ban the sale of some surplus ammunition made there.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), along with 48 of their House Republican colleagues, led the call urging President Biden to immediately end consideration of banning commercial production of certain types of 5.56mm ammunition at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Missouri. |