Granger Case Renews Scrutiny Of Elderly Lawmakers

Politico reports:

Congress has long been home to aging politicians facing serious health woes. But the case of retiring Rep. Kay Granger is the latest evidence that a new generation of Washington players are growing fed up with the tradition of shielding officials’ infirmities from the world.

The revelations are sparking a bipartisan backlash and drawing scrutiny to other elderly lawmakers.

“We need to do some norm changing at a minimum,” Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), 60, said in an interview Monday. “It should really be unacceptable for members to be completely missing from communications with the public and with their own colleagues for months at a time.”

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