Kay Granger
Norvell Kay Granger (born January 18, 1943) is a Moderate Republican politician from the U.S. state of Texas. She has represented the state's 12th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. Prior to that she served as the mayor of Fort Worth.
She has been the ranking member of the United States House Committee on Appropriations since 2019, when Rodney Frelinghuysen of New Jersey retired.
She has announced that she will not seek reelection in 2024.
Political positions
Foreign policy
Granger voted to condemn former U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from Syria.[1] Nevertheless, Trump endorsed Granger in the 2020 Republican primary against the strongly conservative Chris Putnam.[2]
Abortion
Until 2020, she supported abortion.[3] In 2007, she said that abortion is contingent on "the woman, her physician, and her own family.”
In 2020, she joined many GOP representatives and senators as well as conservative Democrat Representatives Dan Lipinski of Illinois and Collin Peterson of Minnesota in opposition to including an abortion requirement in health care plans.[2] It is unclear if Granger's change of heart is genuine or was undertaken to help her defeat the pro-life Putnam.
In November 2023, Representative Granger joined sixty-nine other Republicans to vote to establish a new $300 million building to house the FBI, despite reservations raised by conservatives about the fairness of the agency.[4]
References
- ↑ https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2019/h560
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Anna M. Tinsley (February 10, 2020). Kay Granger has Trump’s support. Here’s why it might not be enough to win her primary. Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Retrieved on June 19, 2021.
- ↑ https://info.cq.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/PowerfulWomen_ebook.pdf
- ↑ J. D. Rucker (November 9, 2023). Here Is a List of 70 RINOs Who Just Voted to Reward the Weaponized FBI With a Lavish New $300 Million Building. The Liberty Daily.
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