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Kay Granger

Kay Granger

Former United States RepresentativeWikipedia

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Oct 14, 2026

Betsy PriceGUEST
18:17
We had a few trailblazers.
Betsy PriceGUEST
18:18
We had Kay Granger and Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and, but if you think about the percent, we've only had one woman governor-
Jamie ErwinHOST
18:24
Yeah.
Jamie ErwinHOST
18:24
Yeah.

22 MINS LATER

Betsy PriceGUEST
40:13
Kay Bailey Hutchinson-
Jamie ErwinHOST
40:14
Mm
Betsy PriceGUEST
40:14
... and Kay Granger.
Betsy PriceGUEST
40:15
There are so many women.
Philip BlumelHOST
10:56
Former Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been recovering from a fall since June and is finally expected to return to the Senate this week.
Philip BlumelHOST
11:04
In 2024, as she was leaving office, it became known that Texas Representative Kay Granger, chairwoman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, had dementia and had lived in an assisted care facility for the last six months of her term.
Philip BlumelHOST
11:19
She passed away last month at the age of 83.
Philip BlumelHOST
11:22
California Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Judiciary Committee, was another sad example of someone who shouldn't have served as long as she did until her death at age 90 in 2023.
Dana LoeschHOST
36:29
I think it was Tony Ortiz.
Dana LoeschHOST
36:31
who discovered that Kay Granger was in a home.
Dana LoeschHOST
36:36
You guys remember this story from...
Dana LoeschHOST
36:38
Let me pull this up.
Dana LoeschHOST
36:40
Kay Granger, that was...
Dana LoeschHOST
36:43
I think that was Current Revolt and Tony Ortiz.
Dana LoeschHOST
36:46
So...
Chris SalcedoHOST
56:46
... he's a vegetable.
Chris SalcedoHOST
56:47
Okay, Kay, Kay Granger.
Sean ChastainGUEST
56:48
There, there should be some kind of way to, to force these people out, you know, some 25th Amendment that we can use on our, you know, aged senators that are-
Chris SalcedoHOST
56:58
Kay Granger.
Sean ChastainGUEST
57:00
Yeah, my ex, uh, congressperson, and yeah, screw her.
Chris SalcedoHOST
57:05
Dude, I think-
Patrick BoyleHOST
9:19
A quick look shows that under fifty percent were rated highly factual, helping me separate reliable reporting from speculation.
Patrick BoyleHOST
9:27
The Dallas Express, which was founded by one of Kay Granger's political opponents, reported that she was living full-time in a memory care unit and was moved there after she was found wandering her neighborhood, while the New York Post interviewed her son, who denied that claim, saying that she moved into an independent living community because she was getting bored and lonely at home.
Patrick BoyleHOST
9:51
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Patrick BoyleHOST
10:00
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Liane MelendezCORRESPONDENT
31:02
There is no way to force a member of Congress out of office, even when he or she-
Randy WangHOST
31:06
There was a woman in Texas, I think her name was Kay Granger, who was living in a memory care facility the last year of her term, and her staff was tweeting on her behalf.
Randy WangHOST
31:19
So she wasn't showing up for votes.
Randy WangHOST
31:21
She couldn't, she was in a memory care facility.
Liane MelendezCORRESPONDENT
32:06
There is no way to force a member of Congress out of office, even when he or she-
Randy WangHOST
32:10
There was a woman in Texas, I think her name was Kay Granger, who was living in a memory care facility the last year of her term, and her staff was tweeting on her behalf.
Randy WangHOST
32:23
So she wasn't showing up for votes.
Randy WangHOST
32:25
She couldn't, she was in a memory care facility.
Larry BrockGUEST
9:15
Hutchinson.
Larry BrockGUEST
9:17
Or was it Kay Granger? Kay
Jennifer Lundy BrockGUEST
9:19
Granger.
Jennifer Lundy BrockGUEST
9:19
Yeah, she was in for us.
PaulHOST
47:50
Yeah, who was that? And had 10 staffers employed.
PaulHOST
47:55
Kay Granger.
JeffHOST
47:56
Kay.
JeffHOST
47:56
Kay Granger.
JeffHOST
47:57
It was a
PaulHOST
47:57
Kay.
PaulHOST
47:58
remember that.
JeffHOST
47:58
Yeah.
Mike NellisHOST
11:33
But there has to be a way to remove them when these things happen.
Mike NellisHOST
11:37
What happened with Kay Granger on the Republican side in 2024, where she was put in an assisted living facility for dementia and nobody noticed, that can't be allowed to happen.
Mike NellisHOST
11:47
What's been going on with Eleanor Norms Holton, where her staff literally tried to keep her in office, was wrong and we can't rely on people to act responsibly and there's a broader problem in america today and this is where i'll end it is we're expecting so many different groups of people big tech on ai our politicians ourselves young men and gambling right now to self-regulate themselves and in the hopes that everything will just work out when it's not going to this is why you have laws this is why you create frameworks for when people don't act responsibly And you see in these moments from these things with Mitch McConnell that we need a new framework for how to deal with these things.
Mike NellisHOST
12:25
Our founders never anticipated how old people were going to be able to live.

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