Former representative · Texas's 12th district

Kay Granger

Kay Granger served in Congress from 1997 to 2025, last as a Republican representative for Texas's 12th district. In the 118th Congress, 1,222 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 311, and cast 584 of 662 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 7, 1997
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2025
Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record
Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
118th CongressHouse of Representatives1,22225.5%311 of 1,222 · rank 5 of 44288%584 of 662 · rank 383 of 44283 became law22%24 of 108
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9972.2%22 of 997 · rank 119 of 44395%525 of 554 · rank 363 of 44300 became law41%43 of 106

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 118th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.40+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

  1. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 148–267· Against party
  2. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 24, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 174–239· Against party
  3. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 147–269· Against party
  4. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 134–272· Against party
  5. H.R. 8998: Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 146–264· Against party
  6. H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 145–273· Against party
  7. H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 136–285· Against party
  8. H.R. 8997: Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Nay
    Jul 23, 2024· House· Amendments· On Agreeing to the Amendment· Failed 125–295· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

  1. H.R. 10545: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
    Dec 20, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 366–34
  2. H.R. 10515: American Relief Act, 2025Not voting
    Dec 19, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Failed 174–235
  3. S. 759: Beagle Brigade Act of 2023Not voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 381–20
  4. H.R. 8663: DETECT Fentanyl and Xylazine Act of 2024Not voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments· Passed 404–1
  5. S. 3857: Jamul Indian Village Land Transfer ActNot voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 369–37
  6. S. 1351: Stop Institutional Child Abuse ActNot voting
    Dec 18, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 373–33
  7. H.R. 1101: Lumbee Fairness ActNot voting
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended· Passed 311–96
  8. S. 3448: Never Again Education Reauthorization Act of 2023Not voting
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 402–12
  9. H.R. 115: Midnight Rules Relief ActNot voting
    Dec 17, 2024· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 210–201
  10. S. 4077: A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 180 Steuart Street in San Francisco, California, as the "Dianne Feinstein Post Office".Not voting
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 348–39
  11. S. 141: Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement ActNot voting
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 382–12
  12. S. 3998: Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act of 2024Not voting
    Dec 16, 2024· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 390–0

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

8 sponsored · 3 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced225%
  2. Passed one chamber338%
  3. Became law338%

Policy areas

  1. Economics and Public Finance6
  2. Education1
  3. Government Operations and Politics1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 8307 Women Who Worked on the Home Front Memorial Location Act
    Introduced· Government Operations and Politics· May 8, 2024
  2. H.Res. 1102 Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 2882, with an amendment.
    Passed one chamber· Economics and Public Finance· Mar 22, 2024
  3. H.Res. 1091 Recognizing and thanking the Nation's women's colleges and universities and recognizing March 5 as "National Women's Colleges and Universities Day".
    Introduced· Education· Mar 19, 2024
  4. H.Res. 1061 Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 4366, with an amendment.
    Passed one chamber· Economics and Public Finance· Mar 6, 2024
  5. H.R. 7463 Extension of Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2024
    Became law· Economics and Public Finance· Mar 1, 2024
  6. H.R. 6363 Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024
    Became law· Economics and Public Finance· Nov 17, 2023
  7. H.R. 6126 Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024
    Passed one chamber· Economics and Public Finance· Nov 14, 2023
  8. H.R. 5860 Continuing Appropriations Act, 2024 and Other Extensions Act
    Became law· Economics and Public Finance· Sep 30, 2023

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Texas's 12th district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.

Obligations · FY2026
$11.6B
Per resident
$14,213
Rank in Texas
3 of 38
Contract actions
18.2K
New awards: 14.3K

By fiscal year

  1. 21.2BFY2017
  2. 15.8BFY2018
  3. 15.5BFY2019
  4. 41BFY2020
  5. 11.4BFY2021
  6. 18BFY2022
  7. 32.9BFY2023
  8. 12.8BFY2024
  9. 32BFY2025
  10. 11.6BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of the Navy$7.4B64%
    Department of Defense
  2. Department of the Air Force$2.5B21%
    Department of Defense
  3. Department of the Army$932.9M8.1%
    Department of Defense
  4. U.S. Customs and Border Protection$367.8M3.2%
    Department of Homeland Security
  5. Defense Logistics Agency$153.2M1.3%
    Department of Defense
  6. Defense Contract Management Agency$89.6M0.8%
    Department of Defense
  7. Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$36.6M0.3%
    Department of Justice
  8. Bureau of Engraving and Printing$33.7M0.3%
    Department of the Treasury

Top recipients

  1. LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION$9.6B83%
    551 awards
  2. BELL TEXTRON INC$1.2B10%
    819 awards
  3. ELBITAMERICA, INC.$321.3M2.8%
    146 awards
  4. AMENTUM SERVICES, INC.$100.9M0.9%
    3 awards
  5. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH$33.8M0.3%
    113 awards
  6. BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.$21.8M0.2%
    56 awards
  7. STRACON SERVICES GROUP, LLC$18.1M0.2%
    2 awards
  8. COLLINS ELBIT VISION SYSTEMS, LLC$17.1M0.1%
    18 awards
  9. ERA HEALTH LLC$12.6M0.1%
    1,728 awards
  10. BLACK & VEATCH - GEI JV$12.4M0.1%
    1 award
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Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2026 cycle

Raised
$926
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$83.2K
From committees
-$4,500
0 committees
From contractor PACs
-$2,500
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$926-$4,500-$2,5000 PACs · — of committee money
2024$1.1M$474.8K$165.5K53 PACs · 35% of committee money
2022$2M$1.1M$398.5K80 PACs · 37% of committee money

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025
  2. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  3. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  4. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  5. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  6. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  7. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  8. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  9. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  10. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
  11. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005
  12. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 3, 2001 – Jan 3, 2003
  13. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 6, 1999 – Jan 3, 2001
  14. House · Texas's 12th districtJan 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 1999

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 9, 2026 · loaded Oct 9, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.