Sam Graves
Sam Graves

Bringing buyers and sellers together through a single platform is not a new idea - most of us know about eBay's success - but with advancing technology comes new innovative methods for businesses to connect customers with those who want to offer services.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

The JOBS Act will allow entrepreneurs to utilize 'crowdfunding,' which permits them to raise equity capital from a large pool of small investors.

Sam Graves
Sam Graves

We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.