Meet the tough as nails Texan trying to keep the GOP in line on spending: Rep Kay Granger, 1 of 4 women leading the powerful Appropriations Committes

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Granger knows the tried and true formula of Reaganomics, and i don't necessarily mean tax cuts, but spending cuts and cutting out waste in government

Meet the 'tough as nails' Texan trying to keep the GOP in line on spending

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.

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from the article:

Any proposal to reduce military funding in that process is a non-starter for Granger. “I don’t support cutting defense,” she said. “That’s the one that I’m really, really hard-core on.”

And while she doesn’t project a hard-core image, Granger is “tough as nails,” as former Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) described his successor atop Appropriations in an interview.