1. Norvell Kay Granger is an American politician who served as the US representative for Texas's 12th congressional district from 1997 to 2025.
35 Facts About Kay Granger
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Kay Granger was elected as the first female mayor of Fort Worth in 1991 and served in that capacity until 1995.
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Kay Granger was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1996.
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Kay Granger is the first Republican woman elected to represent Texas in the US House of Representatives and the first Republican woman to chair the House Committee on Appropriations.
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Kay Granger was born on January 18,1943 in Greenville, Texas.
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Kay Granger graduated from Eastern Hills High School in 1961 and from Texas Wesleyan University in 1965.
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Kay Granger served on the zoning commission of Fort Worth from 1981 to 1989 and on the Fort Worth City Council from 1989 to 1991.
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Kay Granger was elected as the first female mayor of Fort Worth in 1991 and served in that capacity until 1995.
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Kay Granger represented Texas's 12th congressional district from 1997 to 2025.
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In 2020, Kay Granger received the endorsement of President Donald Trump for her re-election campaign.
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Kay Granger was elected Conference Vice Chair, the fourth-ranking position among House Republicans, in 2006.
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Kay Granger served as chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations.
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Kay Granger sat on the United States House Committee on Appropriations's Subcommittee on Defense and the Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education Subcommittee.
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Kay Granger was a member of the House Appropriations Committee for 25 years.
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Kay Granger served as the ranking member of the Committee.
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Kay Granger is the first woman to chair the House Appropriations Committee.
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Kay Granger stepped down from the Appropriations Committee chairship in April 2024.
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Kay Granger was one of four Republicans who did not vote on the impeachment.
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Kay Granger's last recorded vote was on July 24,2024; she was then absent from the Capitol until she returned to Washington in mid-November 2024 for a ceremony celebrating her work on the House Appropriations Committee.
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Kay Granger reversed her position in 2020, asserting that she was anti-abortion, signing an amicus brief that asked the Supreme Court to overturn Roe.
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Kay Granger had received mixed ratings from groups that support legal abortion.
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Kay Granger voted for several spending bills that included funding for Planned Parenthood, including some introduced in 2018.
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In 2019, Kay Granger signed a letter to President Trump urging him to "veto any appropriations bill that weakens current pro-life protections".
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Kay Granger voted several times in favor of an amendment to the United States Constitution to make it a crime to physically desecrate the American flag.
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Kay Granger supported the Federal Marriage Amendment to define marriage as only permitted between a man and a woman, and opposed letting same-sex couples adopt children.
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Kay Granger was one of four Republicans in the House not to vote for or against repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, though she previously voted against other repeal proposals.
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Kay Granger did not vote for or against legislation opposing the ban of transgender troops.
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In June 2013, Kay Granger was among the members of Congress to vote for an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 to restrict the Pentagon from entering into new contracts with Russia's state arms broker, Rosoboronexport.
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Kay Granger voted for a resolution supporting Israel following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
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On September 25,2007, Kay Granger endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary.
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Kay Granger became national co-chair of the campaign organization Women for Mitt, filling a vacancy left by the death of Jennifer Dunn.
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In 2015, Kay Granger opposed Donald Trump's 2016 presidential candidacy, saying, "He definitely should not be considered to speak for our nation as our president".
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In 2006, Kay Granger published What's Right About America, Celebrating Our Nation's Values, a book reflecting on lessons from prominent figures of US history.
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Kay Granger is a member of the United Methodist Church.
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In December 2024, Kay Granger was confirmed to have been residing in a senior living facility in Fort Worth since July 2024, concurrent with the final 6 months of her term.