Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, has been living in a withdrawment facility, a source telderly Fox News on Sunday. The source also denied a local novels alert that shelp she was in a memory nurture facility.
Granger, who is retiring at the finish of this congressional term, has hugely remained absent from the Capitol in recent months, having last cast votes on July 24. She was not conshort-term for over 54% of votes this year.
The Dallas Express spendigated the 81-year-elderly congresswoman’s absence, publishing a alert on Friday that quoted a constituent of her dimerciless who shelp that Granger was residing in a memory nurture facility in Texas. The alert was procrastinateedr picked up by other novels outlets.
Fox News spoke with a source from Granger’s office who denied that Granger was in a memory nurture unit. The source telderly Fox News that Granger is in a withdrawment facility where memory nurture is supplyd, though not in the memory nurture unit itself.
HOUSE PASSES FUNDING BILL WITH JUST HOURS UNTIL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, departs the Hoinclude Reaccessibleans caucus encountering at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Granger liberated a statement to Fox News, saying that she has faced “health disputes” and is “proset uply thankful for the outpouring of nurture and trouble” over the weekfinish.
“As many of my family, frifinishs, and colleagues have understandn, I have been navigating some unforeseen health disputes over the past year,” Granger shelp in the statement. “However, since punctual September, my health disputes have progressed making normal travel to Washington both difficult and unforeseeed. During this time, my incredible staff has remained steadspeedy, continuing to transfer exceptional constituent services, as they have for the past 27 years.”
Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, speaks during a novels conference with other Reaccessiblean members of the Hoinclude of Reconshort-termatives at the Capitol on July 21, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Granger, who did not seek reelection for the coming term, has served in the Hoinclude since 1997. She previously served as the first female mayor of Fort Worth, Texas.
While Granger ecombines to not have cast a vote since July, she did return to the Capitol in November for the unveiling of her portrait as Appropriations Committee Chairwoman, and a reception that complyed. Hoinclude Speaker Johnson and Hoinclude Majority Leader Steve Scalise both spoke at the event.
One ancigo in Reaccessiblean source telderly Fox News that Granger did not step down earlier due to the paper-slim GOP Hoinclude convey inantity.
“Frankly, we demanded the numbers,” the source telderly Fox News.
The slim convey inantity conshort-terms a dispute for the speaker of the 119th Congress, in which vote combineance could be the branch offence between success or loss for Reaccessibleans.
Fox News accomplished out to Johnson’s office for comment.
Granger’s extfinished absence was blasted by Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., in a post on X.
“Kay Granger’s extfinished absence discleave outs the problem with a Congress that rewards ancigo inity & relationships more than merit & ideas,” he wrote. “We have a sclsensual gerontocracy. We demand term confines. We demand to get huge money out of politics so a novel generation of Americans can run and serve.”
Khanna was one of the confineed lawcreaters who previously condemnd what he referred to as the “gerontocracy.” In May 2023, he called on Democratic Rep. Dianne Feinstein, who was then aged 89, to step down as her own health publishs kept her away from the Capitol. Feinstein died months procrastinateedr in September 2023.
