![Photo of Rep. Tom Graves [R-GA14]](/static/legislator-photos/412388-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2018 Report Card for Graves.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Committee Membership
Tom Graves sits on the following committees:
- Ranking Member, House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
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House Committee on Appropriations
- Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government
- Member, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
- Member, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Enacted Legislation
Graves was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 3280: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2018
- H.R. 5325 (114th): Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act
- H.R. 2250 (114th): Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Graves sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Economics and Public Finance (100%)
Recent Bills
Some of Graves’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 3270: Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act
- H.R. 6258: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2019
- H.Con.Res. 92: Recognizing the deep and abiding friendship between the United States and Israel.
- H.R. 4036: Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act
- H.R. 3280: Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2018
- H.J.Res. 62: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, ...
- H.R. 6144 (114th): Accurate Accounting Act of 2016
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jun 2010 to Jun 2019, Graves missed 69 of 6,009 roll call votes, which is 1.1%. This is better than the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
