Norvell Kay Granger is an American Republican politician from the US state of Texas serving as the US representative for Texas's 12th congressional district since 1997.
28 Facts About Kay Granger
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Kay Granger has chaired the United States House Committee on Appropriations since 2023.
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Kay Granger was born in Greenville, Texas, and grew up in Fort Worth.
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Kay Granger attended local public schools and Eastern Hills High School.
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Kay Granger was reelected in 1998 and faced serious opposition only in 2000.
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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 previously 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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On September 25,2007, Kay Granger endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary.
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Kay Granger took the position of national co-chair of the campaign organization Women for Mitt, filling a vacancy left by the death of Jennifer Dunn.
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Kay Granger is a member of the International Republican Institute's and Southwestern University's board of directors.
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Kay Granger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the board of trustees for the Harry S Truman Scholarship foundation.
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Kay Granger is the first Republican woman to sit on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations, and became chair after Republicans won the House majority in the 2022 elections.
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Kay Granger is the third consecutive woman to chair the committee, and the first Republican woman to do so.
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Kay Granger is a member of the Ripon Society, a moderate Republican group.
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Kay Granger was not present at Trump's second impeachment, on January 13,2021, due to being diagnosed with COVID-19, and was one of four Republicans who did not vote, but said she opposed impeachment.
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Kay Granger reversed her position in 2020, saying she is anti-abortion, and signed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe.
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Kay Granger received mixed ratings from groups that support legal abortion.
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Kay Granger declined to cosponsor a bill to ban abortion after six weeks.
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Kay Granger was endorsed by Texas Alliance for Life, an anti-abortion movement PAC, and the Susan B Anthony List.
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Kay Granger has said the Republican Party has too few women in Congress.
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Kay Granger has 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 was part of a group of eight Republicans who spent July 4,2018, meeting with Russian officials in advance of Trump's summit with Vladimir Putin.
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Kay Granger is a member of The United Methodist Church.