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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Absent US congresswoman has been dealing with ‘dementia issues’, family says

US Representative Kay Granger
US Representative Kay Granger, Republican of Texas, has not cast a vote in the House since July. Photograph: Julia Nikhinson/AFP/Getty Images

A Republican congresswoman from Texas has not cast a vote in the US House since July while she has been grappling with “dementia issues” and residing at a senior living facility, according to her family – something she did not disclose to the public before a Dallas media outlet figured out where she was during her prolonged absence.

Kay Granger, 81, has represented Texas’s 12th congressional district, which includes part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, since 1997. And beginning in January 2023 she spent more than a year as the chair of the powerful House appropriations committee.

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