For the first time, Congress' powerful Appropriations Committees are led by four women. But one of them, Rep. Kay Granger, has the toughest job of all.
Mere hours before the expiration of government funding last fall, the House took up a short-term spending patch thatGranger, at the time the House GOP’s senior member on the powerful and purse-strings-wielding Appropriations Committee, then largely sat out bipartisan talks on a longer-termthat she ultimately voted against.
“I was a school teacher, taught for nine years — high school — then I had my first child, and two years later I had twins,” Granger said in an interview. “And so if I can get through that, believe me, I can get through writing this bill.”made last month to finally lock in the speakership will make Granger’s job much harder. House conservatives demanded standalone floor votes on each of the 12 spending bills, a feat the chamber hasn’t accomplished since summer 2009.
Over the course of her long career, Granger once aligned with her Democratic counterparts on some social issues, supporting abortion access anduntil reversing her stance in 2020. She has sometimes declined to take a stance on hot-button topics, such as treatment of LGBTQ troops. Democrats learned more than a decade ago how exhausting it can be to allow the amendment free-for-all that House Republicans are embracing this year for each of their 12 funding bills.
Indeed, Granger is clear about her plans to try to win Democratic votes where she can — hardly a given, since she voted against major spending bills when they ruled the chamber — and she’ll have some help in that department with the return of earmarks,But the often-derided practice of directly aiming federal dollars toward home-state projects could rouse the ire of the House’s rebellious fiscal conservatives as Republican leaders work to fund the government this year.
And while she doesn’t project a hard-core image, Granger is “tough as nails,” as former Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen described his successor atop Appropriations in an interview.
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