Former representative · Louisiana's 6th district
Garret Graves
Garret Graves served in Congress from 2015 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Louisiana's 6th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 23, and cast 769 of 841 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.
- Party
- Republican
- Chamber
- House
- Former
- In Congress since
- Jan 6, 2015
- Last term ended
- Jan 3, 2025
Record by Congress
Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.
| Congress | Roll calls | Missed | Votes with party | Sponsored | Cosponsored across the aisle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 118th CongressHouse of Representatives | 1,222 | 1.9%23 of 1,222 · rank 258 of 442 | 91%769 of 841 · rank 354 of 442 | 262 became law | 22%36 of 162 |
| 117th CongressHouse of Representatives | 997 | 1.5%15 of 997 · rank 164 of 443 | 94%531 of 563 · rank 372 of 443 | 180 became law | 29%58 of 197 |
Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)
Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 118th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.
Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/
Votes against their party
The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.
- Nov 12, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 175–225· Against party
- Sep 23, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 257–125· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 173–243· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 185–231· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 148–267· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 134–272· Against party
- H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025NayJul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 146–264· Against party
- Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 145–273· Against party
Recent votes
The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.
- Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
- Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
- Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
- Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
- Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0
Sponsored bills
Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.
44 sponsored · 2 became law
How far they got
- Introduced3170%
- Reported by committee818%
- Passed one chamber36.8%
- Became law24.5%
Policy areas
- Transportation and Public Works11
- Environmental Protection6
- Energy5
- Public Lands and Natural Resources5
- Emergency Management4
- Armed Forces and National Security3
- Congress2
- Finance and Financial Sector2
Latest activity
- H.R. 82 Social Security Fairness Act of 2023Became law· Social Welfare· Jan 5, 2025
- H.R. 3356 Motor Carrier Safety Screening Modernization ActReported by committee· Transportation and Public Works· Dec 19, 2024
- H.R. 5840 Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act of 2024Reported by committee· Transportation and Public Works· Dec 17, 2024
- H.R. 4165 United States-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act of 2023Introduced· Foreign Trade and International Finance· Dec 17, 2024
- H.Res. 1611 Providing for the printing of a revised edition of the Rules and Manual of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress.Passed one chamber· Congress· Dec 9, 2024
- H.R. 8728 State-Managed Disaster Relief ActReported by committee· Emergency Management· Dec 5, 2024
- H.R. 6083 Duplications of Benefits Victims Relief ActReported by committee· Emergency Management· Dec 5, 2024
- H.R. 1500 Intelligent Transportation Integration ActReported by committee· Transportation and Public Works· Nov 26, 2024
Committees
Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.
No committee seats are listed.
Federal contracts in the district
Contract obligations attributed to Louisiana's 6th district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.
- Obligations · FY2026
- $815.4M
- Per resident
- $1,015
- Rank in Louisiana
- 2 of 6
- Contract actions
- 2,590
- New awards: 1,827
By fiscal year
- 307.8MFY2017
- 303.3MFY2018
- 285MFY2019
- 389.5MFY2020
- 579.5MFY2021
- 730.2MFY2022
- 700.2MFY2023
- 507.4MFY2024
- 446.5MFY2025
- 815.4MFY2026
Top buyers
- Department of the Army$265.6M33%Department of Defense
- U.S. Coast Guard$222.9M27%Department of Homeland Security
- Defense Logistics Agency$176.5M22%Department of Defense
- Department of the Navy$53.5M6.6%Department of Defense
- Agricultural Marketing Service$31.2M3.8%Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection$21.2M2.6%Department of Homeland Security
- Agricultural Research Service$20.9M2.6%Department of Agriculture
- Department of Commerce
Top recipients
- BOLLINGER SHIPYARDS LOCKPORT, L.L.C.$245.6M30%5 awards
- PITTMAN-SEALEVEL, L.L.C.$229.6M28%1 award
- PLACID REFINING COMPANY LLC$151.3M19%33 awards
- GULF SOUTH RESEARCH CORP$21.2M2.6%12 awards
- COVINGTON FIRELAKE JV, LLC$20.5M2.5%2 awards
- CHAND, L.L.C.$20M2.5%1,179 awards
- CONRAD SHIPYARD, L.L.C$19.8M2.4%3 awards
- ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND COMPANY$17.5M2.1%6 awards
- THOMA-SEA MARINE CONSTRUCTORS, L.L.C.$13.9M1.7%17 awards
- ADM RICE INC$13.7M1.7%5 awards
Campaign money
What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.
2026 cycle
- Raised
- $195.8K
- through Jun 30, 2026
- Cash on hand
- $3.6M
- From committees
- -$23.5K
- 1 committees
- From contractor PACs
- -$3,000
- 0 PACs · — of committee money
By cycle
| Cycle | Raised (FEC summary) | From committees | From contractor PACs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $195.8K | -$23.5K | -$3,0000 PACs · — of committee money |
| 2024 | $2.9M | $1.2M | $330K91 PACs · 27% of committee money |
| 2022 | $2M | $1M | $260K64 PACs · 25% of committee money |
Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.
Terms
Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.
- House · Louisiana's 6th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
- House · Louisiana's 6th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
- House · Louisiana's 6th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
- House · Louisiana's 6th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
- House · Louisiana's 6th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
Identifiers
The same member in other public records.
Sources and method
Every figure on this page traces to these records.
- Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
- House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
- Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
- Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
- Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
- Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.