Just some years in the past, Consultant Kay Granger of Texas made historical past when she turned the primary Republican woman to steer the highly effective Home Appropriations Committee.
However her ascent on Capitol Hill reached a coda over the weekend when a conservative outlet in Texas revealed that Ms. Granger had not voted within the Home since July and has been residing in an impartial residing facility — an association her workplace had not disclosed.
Ms. Granger, 81, stepped down as the highest Republican on the Appropriations Committee in March and stated she wouldn’t search re-election, however she continued to serve out the remainder of her time period.
Past elevating questions on whether or not Ms. Granger and her group had misled constituents about her health to serve, the episode introduced renewed consideration to how Capitol Hill is powered by a crop of septuagenarians and octogenarians, together with some who refuse to relinquish energy even far previous their primes.
“Kay Granger’s long absence reveals the problem with a Congress that rewards seniority and relationships more than merit and ideas,” Consultant Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, stated. “We have a sclerotic gerontocracy.”
Ms. Granger moved to the senior residing facility in July, in an effort to organize for her retirement, an individual conversant in the state of affairs who spoke on the situation of anonymity stated, including that the Texas Republican had been in contact with the get together’s leaders and would have returned to Washington if she was wanted for a vote.
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