Texas Rep. Kay Granger found in memory care facility after being missing from Congress for 6 months

Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, the first Republican woman to represent Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives, has been found in a nursing home that specializes in memory care after having been missing from Congress for about six months. 

Granger, 81, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 1996, and before that was the mayor of Ft. Worth, has not cast a vote in Washington since July. Her absence had generated concern in her district, which is the Dallas-Ft. Worth metropolitan area, according to the New York Post.

She was found when a reporter at The Dallas Express got a tip that she had been staying at a memory care facility after being found wandering through her neighborhood while seemingly lost and confused. 

Bo French, the Tarrant County Republican chairman, called it “troubling to say the least.”

“At a time when extraordinarily important votes are happening, including debt ceiling, disaster relief, farm bills and border issues, Kay Granger is nowhere to be found. The margin in Congress is razor thin and the lack of a Republican vote representing CD-12 disenfranchises 2 million people. We deserve better,” French said.

State Republican Executive Committeeman Rolando Garcia said it was a “sad and humiliating way” for Granger to end her 30-year political career.