Sam Graves
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 6th district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Pat Danner |
| Chairman of the House Committee on Small Business | |
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In office January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Nydia Velázquez |
| Succeeded by | Steve Chabot |
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Samuel Bruce Graves, Jr. November 7, 1963 Tarkio, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri, Columbia |
| Religion | Southern Baptist |
Samuel Bruce "Sam" Graves, Jr. (born November 7, 1963) is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 6th congressional district, serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes the entire northern third of the state, from the Kansas border to the Illinois border. However, the bulk of its population lives in the northern suburbs of Kansas City.
Graves was born in Tarkio, Missouri, a small city not far from the Iowa and Nebraska borders, and was the son of Janice A. (née Hord) and Samuel Bruce Graves. He is a lifelong resident of Tarkio. He graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Graves was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1992. After only one term, he was elected to the Missouri Senate in 1994.
Following the economic crisis of Wall Street in September 2008, Graves voted against the proposed bailout of United States financial system, claiming that it neither "punished the wrongdoers nor adequately protected the innocent taxpayers, investors and retirees” caught in the Wall Street banking crisis." In January 2014, Graves introduced the TRICARE Family Improvement Act. The bill would allow dependents of military members to stay on their parents' TRICARE health plan after turning age 26. The bill would change current law, which requires those dependents to change to a separate health plan after turning 26.
Graves is the brother of Todd Graves, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. In October 2008, U.S. Senator Kit Bond apologized to Todd Graves after a U.S. Justice Department report cited Bond forcing Graves out over a disagreement with Representative Graves. Following the report, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed a special prosecutor to investigate whether former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other officials involved in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys broke the law (dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy).
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