A senior GOP representative from Texas vanished from Congress for five months. Kay Granger, who is 81 years old, stepped down as chair of the House Appropriations Committee this past spring, and she announced last year that she would not seek reelection. Sometime in July, she disappeared from Congress entirely and has since missed months' worth of votes. Last week, The Dallas Express (whose now-CEO mounted a primary challenge against Granger in 2020) reported that Granger has been residing in an assisted-living facility. Her son soon confirmed that she has lived there for at least several months; yesterday, he reportedly said that the representative's decline was 'very rapid,' and that she'd moved into the facility before she'd begun showing signs of dementia. In a statement to Axios, Granger said, 'Since early September, my health challenges have progressed making frequent travel to Washington both difficult and unpredictable.' Yesterday, her staff posted a picture of the...
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