Kay Granger

Republican Representative of Texas's 12th district

  • Representative

    Texas, district 12

    January 3, 2023 - January 3, 2025

202-225-5071

@RepKayGranger

kaygranger.house.gov

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14

Congresses Served

14

House Terms

January 18, 1943 (81 years old)

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  • Served as the U.S. representative for Texas’s 12th congressional district since 1997
  • First Republican woman to represent Texas in the U.S. House
  • Former teacher and businesswoman
  • Served as the first female mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, after serving on the city’s zoning commission
  • Chair of the United States House Committee on Appropriations from 2023 to 2024
  • Published a book titled “What’s Right About America, Celebrating Our Nation’s Values”
  • Held the fourth-ranking position among House Republicans as Conference Vice Chair
  • Served on several subcommittees within the House Committee on Appropriations, including Defense, and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
  • Endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary and served as national co-chair of Women for Mitt
  • Member of the International Republican Institute’s and Southwestern University’s board of directors, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the board of trustees for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship foundation
  • Described as socially centrist but fiscally conservative
  • Voted with President Trump’s position on legislative issues about 97% of the time as of February 2020 and with President Biden’s position about 11% of the time as of October 2021
  • Did not vote in Trump’s second impeachment due to a COVID-19 diagnosis but opposed impeachment
  • Announced not running for re-election in 2024 and stepping down early as chair of the House Appropriations Committee
  • Reversed her position on abortion in 2020, becoming anti-abortion after previously supporting abortion rights and Roe v. Wade
  • Supported Israel following the 2023 Hamas attack
  • Voted several times in favor of making it a crime to physically desecrate the American flag, supported the Federal Marriage Amendment, and opposed letting same-sex couples adopt children
  • Supported restricting the Pentagon from entering into new contracts with Russia’s state arms broker, Rosoboronexport
  • Supported more than $50 million in earmarks to infrastructure projects in Fort Worth that benefited the Trinity River Vision Authority, an organization her son heads
  • Has three children and five grandchildren, and is a member of the United Methodist Church
  • Honored with a school and a park named after her, elected to the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame and the Fort Worth Business Hall of Fame, among other awards