Former GOP Congresswoman Dies at 83

Tom Williams / Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Former Republican congresswoman Kay Granger, a barrier-breaking Texan who spent nearly three decades in the U.S House of Representatives, has died at 83. Granger, who represented Texas’s 12th District for 28 years, was the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Texas and later became the first Republican woman to chair the influential House Appropriations Committee. Her death was announced by her son, J.D. Granger. House…