Sam Graves
Sam Graves (R-MO6), a sixth-generation farmer and Chairman of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, has served since 2001 and announced his retirement at the end of the current session. He does not appear to trade individual stocks; his assets are concentrated in family farmland and renewable-fuels partnerships, which are pre-office/business holdings not scoreable as enrichment. His most notable accountability event is a 2009 House Ethics inquiry into an appearance of conflict of interest when he invited a business partner of his wife to testify before the Small Business Committee; the Office of Congressional Ethics found "substantial reason to believe" an appearance of conflict was created, but the Ethics Committee found no rule violation. As T&I chair he draws heavy transportation-sector donations (aviation, airlines, trucking, rail), a strong correlation-not-proof signal between committee jurisdiction and donor base; his lifetime missed-vote rate of 4.5% is modestly above the chamber median.
Public record
- In Congress since
- 2001
- Committees
- Transportation and Infrastructure (Chair)
Armed Services - Missed votes, 119th Congress
- 7.0% (47 of 674; median member 1.9%)
- Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
- $1.8M raised · 60% from PACs & committees · $3.0M cash on hand FEC ↗
The stock-trading ban
H.R. 7008 bans new stock purchases by members, spouses and dependents; it doesn't force sales of existing holdings. The Senate vote was on the version paired with the SAVE Act, which is why no Democrat voted yes. Full breakdown →
Disclosed stock trades
No periodic transaction reports on file since 2024. That's the norm: most members don't trade individual stocks, or hold them in blind trusts and diversified funds.
Amounts are the ranges members must report, not exact values. The STOCK Act requires a report within 45 days of a trade; "late" counts days past that deadline, measured to the filing date.
How the score breaks down
Sources behind this score: 3 data aggregator · 2 reference database · 3 official record · 1 news reporting. Score = weighted average of the components that have data; the 2 without sourced evidence are excluded, never counted against the member. Methodology →
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