KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mayor Quinton Lucas today issued the following statement in response to the announcement that Representative Sam Graves (R-Mo.) will retire from the United States Congress after more than two decades of service. 

“From KCI Airport to the Kansas City Streetcar, the involvement of Representative Sam Graves has helped deliver some of our community’s most important projects over the past generation. I wish him well as he closes his time in the United States Congress.” 

— Mayor Quinton Lucas 

Representative Graves, 62, of Tarkio, Missouri, was first elected to Congress in 2000. He has served as chair or ranking member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee since 2019 and has been widely recognized as a bipartisan dealmaker, including leading the 2024 reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration.