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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called connected Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to resign Tuesday pursuing a heated speech complete her past financial transactions.
Hawley's tense back-and-forth pinch Granholm came during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee proceeding held to reappraisal nan Department of Energy's 2025 fund request. The Missouri Republican excoriated nan power caput for violating nan STOCK Act and for continuing to ain shares of individual companies past twelvemonth contempt testifying that she did not ain immoderate individual stock.
"It is outrageous that you misled us. It is outrageous that you are continuing to mislead us," Hawley remarked. "This has sewage to change. And, frankly, you should go."
Early successful her tenure starring nan Department of Energy, it was revealed that Granholm violated nan STOCK Act 9 times by failing to disclose $240,000 worthy of banal income wrong nan legally-mandated timeframe.
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm revealed past twelvemonth that she owned up to $120,000 worthy of banal contempt testifying nether oath that she did not. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
And, separately, in a June 2023 letter to Energy and Natural Resource Committee leadership, Granholm said she owned shares of six unnamed individual companies worthy up to $120,000 and that her hubby owned $2,457.89 worthy of shares successful Ford Motor Company astatine nan clip of her under-oath grounds earlier nan sheet months prior.
During nan April 20, 2023, hearing, Granholm told Hawley that she was "not owning individual stocks." After discovering her and her husband's ownership of stock, Granholm sold her husband's Ford shares connected May 15, 2023, and sold her remaining individual banal holdings days later, according to her letter.
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"You neglected to study it to this committee for months afterwards," Hawley asked Granholm during nan proceeding Tuesday. "Why did you mislead this committee?"
"Oh, my goodness," Granholm responded. "I believed that I had sold each individual stocks and I was incorrect. So, I came backmost arsenic soon arsenic I recovered retired that, successful fact, I had not sold each individual stocks."
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called for Granholm to resign connected Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Hawley past interrupted her, noting that she waited a month earlier informing nan committee of nan transactions.
"I did not hide it because I brought it distant to nan committee erstwhile I realized that we had made a mistake," Granholm added.
In addition, nan GOP lawmaker besides blasted Granholm for allowing agency labor to ain individual stocks. Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that hundreds of elder DOE officials ain stocks related to nan agency's work, a imaginable conflict-of-interest violation.
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He said that elder DOE officials owning stocks reveals nan "institutionalized corruption successful nan Department of Energy."
Granholm responded, saying officials strictly ain stocks successful companies successful areas they do not person immoderate power over. She besides said nan agency has a beardown morals agency that reviews applicable transactions.
Thomas Catenacci is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital.
