Work to make sure North Missouri farmers continue to lead in energy production.

Sam Graves · Missouri · Republican

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Occurrences

I will work to make sure they continue to do so.

Commits to supporting farmers’ role in energy development and production.

Issues | Graves for Congress
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Evidence

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves said he intends to "finish strong" this Congress after announcing this will be his last term serving as the Representative from Missouri's Sixth District.

Graves is still actively serving, but this statement does not show any concrete action delivering the claim about North Missouri farmers and energy production.

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Chairman Graves Remains Focused on T&I Agenda | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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Graves said Congress had passed legislation to "unleash American energy" and praised continued work on permitting reforms and economic growth, but the statement does not identify any North Missouri farmer-energy production program or completed deliverable.

Recent official rhetoric supports that energy policy remains on his agenda, but it is not proof that the specific promise has been delivered or even partially delivered.

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Chairman Graves Statement on the State of the Union Address | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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The House Clerk recorded Roll Call 445 on agreeing to the conference report for H.R. 6, the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The measure passed 275-156, and Sam Graves of Missouri voted Yea.

Graves took a concrete pro-biofuels energy vote on a law that created the first federal Renewable Fuel Standard, relevant to farm-based fuel production.

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House Roll Call 445, H.R. 6, 109th Congress
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The enacted Energy Policy Act of 2005 defined renewable fuel to include fuel produced from grain, starch, oilseeds, vegetable or animal materials, biomass, biogas, cellulosic biomass ethanol, waste-derived ethanol, and biodiesel, and required rising renewable-fuel volumes through 2012.

The law Graves voted for created a national market mandate for agricultural renewable fuels, a concrete federal action that plausibly helped farmers participate in energy production, though it does not prove North Missouri farmers continued to lead.

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Public Law 109-58, Energy Policy Act of 2005, Section 1221
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Congress.gov records that H.R. 2, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, passed the House, passed the Senate, and was signed by the President on December 20, 2018.

The 2018 Farm Bill became law during Graves's later federal service and continued federal farm and rural-energy policy, but this action record alone does not show Graves personally secured a North Missouri farmer-energy result.

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H.R.2 - Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, All Actions
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The 2018 Farm Bill included an energy title continuing programs such as assistance for biorefineries, bioenergy, biomass crops, and rural renewable energy and efficiency projects.

This supports partial fulfillment because enacted farm legislation maintained federal tools for agricultural energy production, but the evidence is not specific to North Missouri farmers or Graves's individual role.

partial later_term

Public Law 115-334, Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018
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Congress.gov identifies Sam Graves as Representative Sam Graves, Republican of Missouri, serving from the 107th Congress through the 119th Congress.

This establishes Graves remained in federal office across the period in which the promise could be pursued, but it does not itself prove delivery on farmer energy production.

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Sam Graves | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
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Graves said Congress had passed legislation to unleash American energy and praised continued work on permitting reforms and economic growth, but the statement does not identify any North Missouri farmer-energy production program or completed deliverable.

Recent official rhetoric shows energy policy remains on his agenda, but it is not specific enough to prove the campaign promise was fulfilled.

unresolved same_term

Chairman Graves Statement on the State of the Union Address | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 62%

Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves said he intends to finish strong this Congress after announcing this will be his last term serving as the Representative from Missouri's Sixth District.

The statement confirms ongoing service and an active legislative agenda, but it does not document a concrete farmer-energy production outcome.

unresolved same_term

Chairman Graves Remains Focused on T&I Agenda | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
primary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 66%

Assessments

partial later_term

The record shows Graves supported and served during federal policies that helped agricultural energy production, including a yea vote on the 2005 Energy Policy Act creating a Renewable Fuel Standard and later enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill energy title. Those actions are relevant to farmers participating in renewable fuels and rural energy, but the evidence does not show a specific completed result proving North Missouri farmers continued to lead in energy production or that Graves personally secured such an outcome. Later official statements show continued energy-policy rhetoric but not delivery of the specific promise.

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unresolved unknown

The claim is broad and process-oriented, but the supplied evidence only shows Graves remains in office and has made general statements about American energy and permitting. It does not identify a concrete federal action, bill, program, funding outcome, or measurable benefit showing that North Missouri farmers continued to lead in energy production because of his work. Because he is still active in office and the evidence does not establish either delivery or failure, the status is unresolved rather than never.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 64%