Sam Graves

RepublicanDistrict R+19119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score22#351 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Sam Graves’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-7041 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

1135 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-2506

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

Signals to watch

What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.

Could pull them toward Democrats · 0 signals

No signals in this direction

None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.

Keeps them with Republicans · 3 signals

Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.449 (party median +0.530; rank 74 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 85 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Medium
Safe Republican district: MO-6 is R+19MO-6 has a partisan lean of R+19 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Weak
Backs only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 21 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.R. 21, H.R. 38, H.R. 192, H.R. 309, H.R. 425 and 16 more.

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 25.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureChair
Majority · 1st in seniority
House Committee on Armed Services
Majority · 6th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Graves

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of +0.449 is 0.08 to the left of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress85
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Sam Graves on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.J.Res. 20Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters".Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	23	Entrenched
H.J.Res. 24Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to "Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers".