{"id":2222536,"date":"2024-04-16T16:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-blasts-energy-secretary-granholm-for-creating-institutionalized-corruption-at-doe\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:29:42","slug":"josh-hawley-blasts-energy-secretary-granholm-for-creating-institutionalized-corruption-at-doe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-blasts-energy-secretary-granholm-for-creating-institutionalized-corruption-at-doe\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hawley criticizes Energy Secretary Granholm for fostering &#8216;institutionalized corruption&#8217; at DOE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjosh-hawley-blasts-energy-secretary-granholm-for-creating-institutionalized-corruption-at-doe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2222536&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Josh Hawley criticized\u2064 Energy \u200bSecretary Jennifer Granholm for\u200b not\u2063 disclosing\u2063 her ownership of individual stocks, accusing her of deceiving Congress. The tense exchange took place during a Senate Energy\u200b and \u200bNatural \u2063Resources Committee hearing. Granholm admitted to the\u2063 oversight, \u200dattributing it to her belief that she no longer held any individual stocks. However, Hawley contested her delayed disclosure, highlighting inconsistencies in her testimony.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) slammed Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday for not reporting individual stocks she owned and accused her of misleading Congress when she previously claimed she did not own any.<\/p>\n<p>The heated exchange, which lasted several minutes, happened during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you were here last, I talked with you about the fact that more than 130 officials in the Energy Department reported more than 2,700 trades of shares, bonds, and options in companies that ethics officers said was directly related to the agency\u2019s work,\u201d Hawley began. \u201cThis is institutionalized corruption. And I asked you point blank, \u2018Do you own any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wallstreetbets-keith-gill-testifies-over-gamestop-saga-what-i-did-no-different-than-discussing-stock-at-a-bar\/\" title=\"WallStreetBets\u2019 Keith Gill Testifies Over GameStop Saga: What I Did No Different Than Discussing Stock At A Bar\">individual stock<\/a>?\u2019 And you told me, \u2018No.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTurns out that was false,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou did own multiple individual stocks and you neglected to report it to this committee for months afterwards. Why did you mislead this committee?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, my goodness,\u201d Granholm responded, claiming: \u201cI believed that I had sold all individual stocks. And I was incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After several moments of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/internet-erupts-over-video-of-woman-going-off-on-man-for-not-wearing-mask-on-plane-sit-down-karen\/\" title=\"Internet Erupts Over Video Of Woman Going Off On Man For Not Wearing Mask On Plane: \u2018Sit Down, Karen!\u2019\">intense back-<\/a>and-forth, Hawley pushed back on her claim that she immediately notified the committee when she learned that she owned individual stock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait, wait, wait, wait, no, that\u2019s not true, either,\u201d Hawley said. \u201cLet\u2019s just look at the timeline. Let\u2019s not\u2013, I just remind you, you\u2019re under oath. Madam Secretary, you testified you didn\u2019t own any individual stocks. You didn\u2019t sell the stocks for a whole other month. And after you sold the stocks, you waited another month before you informed this committee. Why did you mislead us? And what were you hiding? Why did you wait so long? Why did you hide this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granholm insisted that she did not \u201chide\u201d her false claim but later added that she didn\u2019t know what five of the six individual stocks that she was forced to sell were.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re here before this committee a year later, after actively misleading us after denying and delaying and delaying. And now you won\u2019t tell us. Was one of them Proterra?\u201d Hawley pressed. \u201cYou sat on the board of directors at Proterra. You made millions in end reports and stock options at Proterra then you, you promoted Proterra stock and Proterra products as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-energy-secretary-pick-called-out-by-republicans-for-democrats-awful-record-on-green-jobs-video\/\" title=\"Biden Energy Secretary Pick Called Out By Republicans For Democrats\u2019 Awful Record On \u2018Green Jobs\u2019 (VIDEO)\">energy secretary<\/a>. Was that one of the stocks that you sold?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is so, I mean, really?\u201d Granholm responded.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, really,\u201d Hawley fired back. \u201cYou are presiding over institutionalized corruption in your Energy Department, you have violated the Stock Act nine separate times. You have been referred by the Inspector General for violations of the Hatch Act. It is institutionalized corruption that you are now the face of and here\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to figure out. I just want to know who really runs the Energy Department. Is it you? Or is it the mega-corporations whose stock that you own that you\u2019re making profits in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawley concluded a few minutes later by saying she needed to resign from her department.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MUST WATCH: Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HawleyMO<\/a> blasts a flustered Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm over failing to disclose owning conflicting stocks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Md0JVc8LNJ\">pic.twitter.com\/Md0JVc8LNJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WarMachineRR\/status\/1780274598875144328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) criticized Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm for failing to report her individual stocks and accused her of misleading Congress by denying ownership. 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