Kay Granger
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 12th district
In office 1997–present
Preceded by	Pete Geren
Born	January 18, 1943 (1943-01-18) (age 65) Greenville, Texas
Political party	Republican
Spouse	divorced
Religion	Methodist

Kay Granger (born January 18, 1943), a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Texas, currently represents the 12th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. Texas District 12 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the area west of Fort Worth in the state of Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Preston M Geren III (born January 29, 1952 in Fort Worth Texas) has served as the 20th and current United States Secretary of the Army Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Greenville is the County seat of Hunt County, Texas, in the United States. Methodism is a movement within Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A US state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States of America that share Sovereignty with the federal government Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. Texas District 12 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the area west of Fort Worth in the state of The United States House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate.

Granger was born in Greenville, Texas, and attended Eastern Hills High School, which recognized her as Distinguished Eastern Hills High School Graduate in 1993. Greenville is the County seat of Hunt County, Texas, in the United States. Eastern Hills High School is a four-year Public high school in Fort Worth Texas, educating students in grades 9-12 as part of the Fort Worth Independent School ^[1] She graduated from Texas Wesleyan University. Texas Wesleyan University is a private College located in the southeast part of Fort Worth, Texas. She was elected to the Fort Worth city council in 1989 and was elected Mayor in 1991. Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventeenth-largest city in the United States. Her tenure as mayor saw a drop in violent crime, although violent crime decreased statewide in Texas and in the country generally during that same period. After the retirement of Congressman Pete Geren in 1996, both the Democratic and Republican parties worked to recruit Granger. Preston M Geren III (born January 29, 1952 in Fort Worth Texas) has served as the 20th and current United States Secretary of the Army The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. Granger made the decision to run as a Republican, much to the dismay of local GOP activists, who criticized Granger as being too liberal. She was handily reelected in 1998 and hasn't faced serious opposition since.

In 2006, Granger was reelected to serve her sixth term in Congress. She was also elected Conference Vice Chair, the fourth-ranking position among House Republicans, in November 2006. The Vice-Chair of the Republican Conference in the United States House of Representatives is a leadership position that is next in rank after the House Republican Conference She sits on the United States House Committee on Appropriations's Subcommittee on Defense (the first woman to do so), and the Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education Subcommittee. The Committee on Appropriations is a committee of the United States House of Representatives. The House Subcommittee on Defense is a standing subcommittee within the United States House Committee on Appropriations. The Subcommittee on Labor Health and Human Services Education and Related Agencies is a subcommittee within the House Appropriations Committee. She also serves as a Deputy Minority Whip.

Granger is the author of the book, What's Right About America, Celebrating Our Nation's Values.

In August 2007, Kay Granger Elementary School opened in far north Fort Worth. Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventeenth-largest city in the United States. Land for the school was donated to the Northwest Independent School District by Hillwood Development Corp. (H. Ross Perot, Jr.'s company) with the agreement that the school would be named for the sitting Congresswoman. Henry Ross Perot Jr (b 1958) is a real estate developer and Chairman of the Board of Perot Systems. A school named for Granger's mother - Mullendore Elementary - was opened several years earlier in North Richland Hills, Texas. North Richland Hills is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The adjacent Kay Granger Park is maintained by the city.

On September 25, 2007, she publicly endorsed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the primary race for the Republican Party presidential nomination. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. ^[2] She also took up the position of national co-chair of the campaign organization Women for Mitt, filling a vacancy left by the death of Jennifer Dunn. Jennifer Blackburn Dunn ( July 29, 1941 – September 5, 2007) was a prominent Republican member of the United States House of ^[3] In a statement to the press following her endorsement, she said that she had heard Romney speak and that "I agreed with everything he said, in the order he said it. "

Ideology

Granger is a member of several groups of moderately conservative Republicans, such as The Republican Main Street Partnership (which supports embryonic stem cell research), The Republican Majority for Choice, Republicans for Choice, and The Wish List. The Republican Main Street Partnership ( RMSP) is a group of Moderate members of the United States Republican Party. Embryonic stem cells (ES cells are Stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of an early stage Embryo known as a Blastocyst. Republicans for Choice, an organization based in the Washington D For other uses of The Wish List, please see The Wish List (disambiguation The Wish List is an organization whose

In practice, her voting record reflects that she almost always votes with her party's leadership in Congress. Her own website posts an article from "Conservative Quarterly" that calls her "a dependable vote for the leadership on most issues. "

Because of the divergence between her public pronouncements and her Congressional voting record, she has been characterized as having "a muddled ideological background". ^[4]

In 2003, Granger was given a 10% rating by NARAL and an 84% rating by the Christian Coalition of America. NARAL Pro-Choice America (pronounced "NAY-ral" is a Pro-choice organization in the United States that engages in political action to oppose restrictions For other organizations with a similar name see Christian Coalition.

Granger has also voted several times in favor of an amendment to the United States Constitution to make it a crime to physically desecrate the American flag. The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme Law of the United States. She also supports the Federal Marriage Amendment. The Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA (also referred to by proponents as the Marriage Protection Amendment) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution

References

External links

• U.S. Congresswoman Kay Granger Lee official House site
  • USS Fort Worth Campaign
• Kay Granger at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Federal Election Commission — Kay Granger campaign finance reports and data
• On the Issues — Kay Granger issue positions and quotes
• OpenSecrets.org — Kay Granger campaign contributions
• Project Vote Smart — Representative Kay Granger (TX) profile
• SourceWatch Congresspedia — Kay Granger profile
• Washington Post — Congress Votes Database: Kay Granger voting record
• Kay Granger for U.S. Congress official campaign site