Sam Graves

U.S. Representative · MO-6 · Republican · Chair, Transportation and Infrastructure

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 9, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
1.57· expected 1.90

Meets expectations

Rank 84 of 433 in the House · expected = average of 24 majority-party committee chairs

How far Graves’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 13
  2. Action in committee 7
  3. Action beyond committee 7
  4. Passed chamber 3
  5. Became law 0

13 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 3 significant (got a roll call vote), 10 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the House

How Graves’s ratings compare with every representative

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one representative; the ringed marker is Graves.

Graves in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

93/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 47 missed of 674

Voted on 627 of 674 roll calls; missed 47. Lower than 90% of House members.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
99/ 100

House R median 98 · Rank 36 of 219

Sided with the Republican majority on 454 votes that split the parties. Higher than 76% of House members.

45%100%
12/ 100

Chamber median 12 · +0

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 53% of House members.

0%70%
+0.45

Republican middle 80%: 0.32 to 0.71

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 16 (median 26) · cosponsored 105 (median 294), 38 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the House. From congress.gov.

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