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Once again, Congress was faced with a debt limit increase last week that did not contain a single measure to help get our spending under control. That's simply the wrong prescription when it comes to ensuring a strong economic future. After the last five years of big-government ideas from the White House and the Senate, it is clearer than ever that simply spending money is not going to fix our problems.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the Department of Labor announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) withdrew its controversial enforcement guidance regarding small family farms, Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) issued the following statement:
Bill includes no measure to cut spending
The Winter Olympics in Sochi are now underway. There have been numerous reports about just how ill-prepared the region was to accommodate the spectators and athletes at the games. Hotels where the water is unclean and rooms lack doorknobs seem to be commonplace, and many manhole covers hadn't even been set in place before crowds began arriving.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06), House Small Business Committee Chairman, released the following statement after the Administration's announcement that small businesses between 50 and 99 employees would be exempt from the employer mandate until 2016:
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06) is asking the Inspector General (IG) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to look into crop insurance reviews of dozens of farmers in mostly Northeast Missouri. Graves sent a letter to USDA IG Phyllis Fong earlier this week urging her to investigate the matter.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Following the release of a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which found that Obamacare will result in a loss of over two million full-time workers from the economy by 2017, Congressman Sam Graves (MO-06), Chairman of the House Small Business Committee, issued the following statement:
President Obama's 2014 State of the Union address is as memorable for what he didn't say as what he did.
During the course of his 65-minute speech, the president didn't mention the phrases ‘national debt' or ‘spending' once. It seems that working with the Congress to get our fiscal house in order and reduce our $17 trillion debt remains low on the totem pole for this Administration.
Bill would allow children to remain on parents' plan until 26
Graves: "I hope the president will put down his pen, pick up his phone, and use it to call Congress sometime."