WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Sam Graves (MO-06), House Small Business Committee Chairman, released the following statement on the April jobs report:

“While April’s numbers are encouraging, I remain concerned about people who have completely given up on looking for jobs and those who have left the workforce altogether.  Whether it’s playing politics with the Keystone pipeline, slashing workweeks and take home pay under ObamaCare, or the EPA assaulting farmers and livestock producers, the President’s economic record only makes things worse for middle class Missourians.”