Energy Secretary Granholm Provides False Statement to Congress

June 23, 2023

Recently it was revealed that Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm made false statements to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. In a letter sent last week, Granholm admitted that she lied about owning individual stocks.

 Fox News reports,

“While Granholm divested from a variety of stocks in 2021, she acknowledged in the letter — which was sent to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee leadership — that she maintained shares of six companies. On April 20, however, Granholm testified under oath that she had sold all of her shares of individual companies.”’As you know, as part of the confirmation process before this Committee, in 2021 I divested from assets that could be in conflict with my official duties,” Granholm wrote in the letter obtained by Fox News Digital. “I did, however, retain assets that were determined by Government ethics officials to not conflict with my official duties…I mistakenly told the Committee that I did not own any individual stocks, whereas I should have said that I did not own any conflicting stocks..”’ 

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), the top Republican of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, recently sent a letter to the Department of Energy Inspector General Teri Donaldson calling for an investigation into Secretary Granholm. 

“I write to formally request an investigation of Secretary Granholm’s misrepresentation of her financial holdings before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Committee) on April 20, 2023, as well as her failure to disclose her husband’s ownership of conflicting Ford stock. Secretary Granholm stated for the record that she did not own any individual stocks. However, in her attached June 9, 2023 letter to the Committee, she stated that she did, in fact, own shares of individual stocks in six different companies until her May 18, 2023 sale of these shares.” 

Secretary Granholm has always been controversial, even landing herself on our Energy Hypocrisy Madness Bracket, but lying to Congress takes the cake. We hope the Biden  Administration takes this act seriously and we see the Secretary held accountable for her actions.