“Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.”

American politician, born 1963

Sam Graves is an American politician serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for Missouri’s 6th congressional district. Born in 1963, he has held office since 2001 and is the dean of Missouri’s congressional delegation following the retirement of Senator Roy Blunt in 2023. He represents a district that covers most of the northern third of Missouri, stretching from the Kansas border to the Illinois border. Much of its population is in the northern part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.