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Official portrait of Rep. Sam Graves

Sam Graves

REPUBLICAN U.S. Representative · MissouriHouse 2001–now (MO-6)

Sam Graves is a Republican U.S. representative from Missouri, in Congress since 2001, who voted with most Republicans on 99% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 7 bills become law since 2013.

122Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)
17Passed a chamberof 94 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)
7Became law6 substantive + 1 ceremonial · 113th–119th Congress · 0 this Congress
7Broke with partyof 626 yes/no votes, 119th (1.1%)
47Missed votesof 675 roll calls, 119th (7.0%)
$41.0MPork: own shareFY2024 earmarks, 13 items; shared items split

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

5 most recent votes

5 most recent bills

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Committees

Elections Rep. Graves has won

Rep. Graves has won 13 U.S. House elections (2000–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 4.1 to 43.8 points.

010204060Margin of victory, points (axis starts at 0)2000, MO-6: won by 4.1 points2000MO-62002, MO-6: won by 27.8 points20022004, MO-6: won by 29.1 points20042006, MO-6: won by 25.9 points20062008, MO-6: won by 22.6 points20082010, MO-6: won by 38.9 points20102012, MO-6: won by 32.5 points20122014, MO-6: won by 37.1 points20142016, MO-6: won by 39.6 points20162018, MO-6: won by 33.4 points20182020, MO-6: won by 36.2 points20202022, MO-6: won by 42.8 points20222024, MO-6: won by 43.8 points2024
Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed
Elections won13 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed
Closest win: 4.1 points2000, MO-6
Won an open seat or took one from the other party1 of 13 elections (open seat or changed party)
Seat history, Missouri’s 6th districtWinners, most recent three: Earl Coleman (R) 1976–1990 → Pat Danner (D) 1992–1998 → Sam Graves (R) 2000–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

Full election history for this seat →

Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has Missouri’s 6th district done while Rep. Graves served?

2012 to 2021 in MO-6: typical household income was up 16% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 2.5 points.

Typical household income · after inflationU.S. $80.8KMO-6 $80.3KMissouri $71.7K
MO-6: $69.0K in 2012 → $80.3K in 2021
MO-6 up 16%Missouri up 15%U.S. up 15%
Share of people below the poverty lineU.S. 12.8%Missouri 12.7%MO-6 10.8%
MO-6: 11.6% in 2012 → 10.8% in 2021
MO-6 about the sameMissouri down 3.5 pointsU.S. down 3.2 points
Share of workers looking for a jobU.S. 6.3%Missouri 4.6%MO-6 4.2%
MO-6: 6.7% in 2012 → 4.2% in 2021
MO-6 down 2.5 pointsMissouri down 4.0 pointsU.S. down 3.1 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Missouri’s 6th district during Graves’s time representing it (2001 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

Only one set of district lines is shown. MO-6 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2012 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2001 to now.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Local offices

Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)
Evidence
File
legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries G000546-st__joseph, G000546-troy, G000546-hannibal, G000546-kansas_city (4 offices)
Published at
https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
File date
September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59
Licence
CC0 1.0 (public domain)

Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, graves.house.gov.

Federal figures for MO-6

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s district. The full table, sources and notes are on the district page.

179,391people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025
Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row
Table 1; sheet 'MO - OASDI', row 11
Data as of
December 2025; released April 2026
Licence
CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
Full file
cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256
7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f
12,582people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025
Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row
Table 2; sheet 'MO - SSI', row 12
Data as of
December 2025; released April 2026
Licence
CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
Full file
cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256
7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f
$439,154,756VA direct expenditures attributed to this district, FY2025
Source: VA GDX FY2025, CD Direct, September 2026 ↗
Evidence
Publisher
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File
GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'CD Direct Exp', row 233, code MO06
Prepared
September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries
119th Congress districts
Licence
U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER
October 16, 2026
File SHA-256
1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

Open the MO-6 page, with notes →

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Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 16 bills sponsored.

RecordBillsSource
Bills sponsored16Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement13See the 13 →
With a CBO cost estimate listed4See the 4 →
With a committee report listed3See the 3 →
Evidence
How counted
Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields
cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed
October 26, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.