Graves, Garret, 1972-

<p>Congressman Garret Graves represents Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. More than 750,000 people live in the 13 parishes that make up the sixth district, which includes most of Garret’s hometown of Baton Rouge, the bulk of the Capital City’s suburbs, parts of parishes along both sides of the Mississippi River to the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain and continues south through Thibodaux to Houma.</p>

<p>For the 117th Congress, Garret is the Ranking Member for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation and is the Ranking Member for the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. He also serves on the House Natural Resources Committee.</p>

<p>Last Congress, Graves was also a member of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment and which is instrumental in the development, passage and enactment of a range of policy wins on rivers, levees, flood protection, coastal issues and Corps of Engineers reforms. He has brought about critical upgrades to federal disaster response and recovery programs, streamlining FEMA operations, creating faster recoveries, and helping make communities across the nation more resilient to disaster.</p>

GRAVES, Garret, a Representative from Louisiana; born in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on January 31, 1972; graduated from Catholic High School, Baton Rouge, La., 1990; attended the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, La., and American University, Washington, D.C.; staff, United States Senator John Breaux of Louisiana; staff, United States Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana; staff, United States Senator David Vitter of Louisiana; staff, United States Senate Committee on Commerce; staff, United States Senate Committee on Science and Transportation; staff, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce; appointed to National Resource Damage Assessment, Gulf Coast; chairman, the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana; vice chairman of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, United States Environmental Protection Agency; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fourteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2015-present).

<p>Garret Neal Graves (born January 31, 1972) is an American politician serving as the United States Representative from Louisiana's 6th congressional district. In a runoff election on December 6, 2014, Graves, a Republican, defeated the Democratic candidate, Edwin Edwards.</p>

<p>Garret Graves was born on January 31, 1972 to John and Cynthia (née Sliman) Graves, who was of Lebanese descent; his father owns an engineering firm. He is a Roman Catholic. Graves attended the University of Alabama, Louisiana Tech, and American University, but did not earn a degree.</p>

<p>Graves served as an aide for nine years to former U.S. Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana's 3rd congressional district. He was also a legislative aide to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, of which Tauzin served as chairman. In 2005, he became an aide for the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, serving Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter. He was the staff director for the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Climate Change and Impacts. He also worked for Democratic former U.S. Senator John Breaux, a protege of Edwin Edwards and Vitter's predecessor in the Senate. He served as a chief legislative aide to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.</p>