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WASHINGTON, DC – Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (MO-06) statement on the House’s approval of legislation to end the federal government shutdown:
Imagine working 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, and being expected to be right 100 percent of the time. Not 99.9 percent of the time—100 percent of the time. You don’t get to choose which days you work, and that means you’re working a lot of Saturdays and Sundays while your kids are home and a whole lot of missed baseball, softball, and other sporting events.
Raising cattle sounds mighty easy until you get kicked in the gut by a thousand-pound steer.
WASHINGTON, DC – Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) joined Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI), and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy today at a press conference to discuss the impacts of the government shutdown on our aviation system and the more than 13,000 air traffic controllers currently working without pay.
At 12 a.m. on October 1st, the government shut down. It didn’t have to happen. House Republicans already passed a bill to keep the government open. There were no gimmicks and no partisan politics involved; just a straightforward, clean bill that ensured our troops and Border Patrol agents get paid and the government continued to operate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) released the following statement after Senator Schumer and his caucus refused to vote for a clean continuing resolution passed by the House on September 19th.
WASHINGTON, DC – Leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Republican Conference, and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) joined in calling for improving the safety of America’s public transportation systems, following a roundtable meeting on the issue today held by T&I’s Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
North Missouri spans a lot of miles. You don’t have go far to find transportation issues that need fixing. That might be a lettered route in Adair County or traffic snarls in the Northland of Kansas City. As the Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, it has been my priority to not only ensure that we are fixing the country’s infrastructure, but also fixing our roads and bridges here in North Missouri. That means every county, in every corner of the district, small or large. Over the years, we’ve gotten a lot done, but there’s plenty more to do.
“When disaster strikes…FEMA just gets in the way.”
That’s not actually how that phrase is supposed to go, but all too often, that’s the story I hear. Folks expect that when disaster strikes—whether it be a flood, tornado, hurricane, wildfire, or something else—the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will come to help. While they may show up, the help they offer is often too little, too late, and mired in complex red tape that communities and families struggle to navigate.