A top official in President Joe Biden’s administration has admitted to lying to Congress when she claimed not to own individual stocks.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is an ACTRESS who played a sex object on the DATING GAME TV Show and she has been hired to play an indignant, simpering Biden/Obama shill to help shovel cash to Biden/Obama political campaign financier/beneficiaries!
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Energy Secretary’s Alleged Ethics Violations Prompt 15 Groups To Demand Her Resignation
by Mairead Elordi, Investigative Reporter
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s alleged ethics violations and failures have prompted 15 nonprofits to write to President Joe Biden on Tuesday demanding her resignation…The group of nonprofits demanding Granholm’s resignation include the 60 Plus Association, AMAC Action, the American Accountability Foundation, CFACT, the Conservative Caucus, the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, the Eagle Forum, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, David Bozell of ForAmerica, Heartland Impact, the Heartland Institute, L. Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the Media Research Center, the Project 21 Black Leadership Network, and Protect the Public’s Trust.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Graholm, a Biden appointee, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on April 20 that she did not own individual stocks, instead owning mutual funds.
Granholm said in a letter on June 9 to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) that she was not truthful during the Capitol Hill appearance.
“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,” Granholm wrote in the missive, which was obtained and reviewed by The Epoch Times.
Granholm said she divested from assets that could be in conflict with her duties as part of being confirmed as energy secretary but that she retained stocks that government ethics officials determined would not conflict with those duties.
She has since sold those stocks.
“In order to make my financial holdings consistent with my testimony, on May 18, 2023, I divested my remaining stock holdings which consisted of stock in six companies, even though these assets were deemed non-conflicting,” Granholm said.
Granholm did not identify the companies. She said they would be identified on her annual disclosure report, which is expected to be available in mid-June.
The Department of Energy and Manchin, the chair of the energy panel, did not respond to requests for comment.
“Secretary Granholm lied to the committee about her family’s stock holdings,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the top Republican on the committee, told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.
“This comes after her failure to follow basic ethics and disclosure rules. This is a troubling pattern. It is unacceptable,” he added.
Granholm violated stock disclosure rules by listing stock sales in 2022 months later than required, she acknowledged to the Senate previously. She also violated the Hatch Act when she endorsed Democrats while making an official appearance.
Granholm did not appear to be under oath when she made the false statement to the panel in April, according to video footage of the hearing. Most witnesses testifying before the Senate are not sworn in.
One federal law prohibits making false statements under oath that they do not believe to be true. Another law bars “knowingly and willfully” making false statements “in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States.” Violations of either can land a person up to five years in prison.
The U.S. Department of Justice rarely brings cases against officials who lie, regardless of whether they’re under oath.
Former President Donald Trump became one of the rare exceptions this week when he was charged with making false statements and other crimes.
The department and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
“Granholm lied to me on April 20—and it took the Administration 6 full weeks to admit it. Brazen,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who was questioning Granholm when she made the false statement, wrote on Twitter. “It is time to BAN all senior executive branch officials and all members of Congress from owning & trading stock.”
Granholm also disclosed in the new letter that Ford stock her husband and she held in retirement accounts was sold on March 22, 2021, during the confirmation process and that she “believed that the divestiture of Ford was complete.”
But she learned in May 2023 that her husband, Daniel Mulhern, continued holding Ford stock in a separate account, she said.
That stock was sold for $2,457.89 on May 15.
“As I was not previously aware of the asset, I did not report my spouse’s financial interest on my two prior Public Financial Disclosure Reports, nor was it included in the other paperwork associated with my nomination,” Granholm wrote.
She added: “As a public servant, I take very seriously the commitment to hold myself to the highest ethical standards, and I regret the accidental omission of my spouse’s interest in Ford. This is a commitment I made to you, the President, and most importantly the American people. My spouse and I have double-checked our financial assets, and there are no other reportable assets that were omitted from my financial disclosure report.”
Her utter failure to invigorate electric cars has actually turned into the destruction of the electric car market under her leadership.
We have been swimming upstream for years here at American Thinker, arguing that conversion of the automobile fleet to electric vehicles is a mistake, harming the environment more than helping it, and utterly impractical for a variety of reasons, including charging time and an entirely inadequate electrical grid, already at the breaking point.
Yet the “green” image associated with EVs (and the subsidies) continue, impervious to the reality. With the sole exception of Toyota, the auto industry has bought in to the conversion, even as losses mount for almost everyone but Tesla.
However, there are signs that the gravity of the practical problems with E.V. conversion are sinking in. Rowan Atkinson, who has become a global icon portraying “Mr. Bean,” a character Atkinson describes as “a child in a man’s body,” is publicly raising these questions. Daniel Y. Ting writes in the Epoch Times (paywalled but available to AT readers by special arrangement):
The actor and comedian behind the popular Mr. Bean character has called on drivers to hold off buying an electric vehicle (EV), saying the environmental benefits do not stack up.
Rowan Atkinson, a long-time motor enthusiast with a degree and master’s in electrical engineering, said current EV technology was more harmful to the environment than it was worth.
“Increasingly, I’m feeling that our honeymoon with electric cars is coming to an end, and that’s no bad thing: we’re realising that a wider range of options need to be explored if we’re going to properly address the very serious environmental problems that our use of the motor car has created,” Atkinson wrote in The Guardian newspaper.
He pointed to figures released by automotive giant Volvo revealing that greenhouse gas emissions during the EV production process were 70 percent higher than building a petrol car. (snip)
“The problem lies with the lithium-ion batteries fitted currently to nearly all-electric vehicles: they’re absurdly heavy, huge amounts of energy are required to make them, and they are estimated to last only upwards of 10 years.
One the prominent features of the Mr. Bean comedy was a Mini car that was rolled out for a celebration of the show’s 25th anniversary at Buckingham Palace.
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Energy Secretary Granholm Takes Fifth Trip to Puerto Rico After Republicans Question Travel Spending
Granholm wants to modernize Puerto Rico’s power grid. Energy experts question why she needs to be there in person.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm traveled to Puerto Rico this week for the fifth time in nine months, following concerns from Republican lawmakers about how she is prioritizing her taxpayer-funded travel.
Granholm said she was “Glad to be back in Puerto Rico this week w/ a series of announcements on energy resilience,” according to a Monday Twitter post.
This is Grahnolm’s fifth official trip to Puerto Rico since last October, including one week-long visit in February and one week-long trip during spring break in March.
The trip comes a few months after House Republicans questioned Granholm’s extensive taxpayer-funded travel to the U.S. territory, as well as her frequent international travel. They asked her to turn over her itineraries and list of expenses for the junkets.
On Monday, Granholm announced $453 million in federal funding to increase “residential rooftop solar PV and battery storage installations” in Puerto Rico, and another $7 million in grants for the Puerto Rican government to “help disadvantaged communities to determine their energy needs.”
Granholm has said she is working to help Puerto Rico modernize its struggling power grid. But energy experts have questioned why she needs to be on the ground so frequently during a global energy crisis.
“We are in the middle of a domestic and global energy crisis, and under her watch the American people are paying the price for this administration’s failed energy policies,” a former Department of Energy official told the Washington Free Beacon in March. “Unless Granholm is there installing the solar panels herself, there is no reason for her to be on the ground for that long.”
The Department of Energy did not respond to a request for comment, but referred the Free Beacon to press releases about the trip.
Republican lawmakers grilled Granholm in April over the “frequency and duration of these trips … particularly in light of climbing energy costs and intensifying threats to the United States’ energy independence.”
“We understand the importance of stabilizing and modernizing Puerto Rico’s electric grid but question whether your frequent and extended presence is critical to these activities,” wrote House Energy and Commerce Committee chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations chair Morgan Griffith (R., Va.) in an April 25 letter to Granholm.
The congresswomen asked Granholm for an “itemized list of expenses incurred during the duration of the secretary’s travels for herself and all accompanying staff” and a “list of official activities and meetings undertaken during the secretary’s travels and all accompanying meeting minutes.”
Granholm’s trip comes days after she returned from a week-long visit to India where she attended multiple international forums.
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It’s a small step, perhaps, but when a very popular and widely admired entertainer feels that it is safe to dissent from the orthodoxy on electric vehicles, it is a sign of progress — the kind that progressives hate.
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Biden Admin. Splashing $1.7 Billion on Electric and Low-Emission Buses Owned By Biden DOE Boss
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Monday it is releasing some $1.7 billion in grants to fund new electric and low-emission buses across the country.
The taxpayer dollars come from the 2021 infrastructure bill signed into law by President Joe Biden, AP reports, with the money going to transit projects in 46 states and territories.
“Every day, millions of Americans climb aboard over 60,000 buses to get to work, to school, doctor’s appointments, everywhere they need to be,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a call with reporters.
“These are unprecedented levels of investment when it comes to putting modern cleaner buses on the road.”
This is not the first time this administration has professed a love for electric buses, as Breitbart News reported, with Biden claiming back in 2021 “Diesel [from school buses] pollutes the air … and causes our students to miss school.”
FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Blames Diesel Buses for Causing Students to Miss School
The White House / YouTube
Then 12 months later Vice President Kamala Harris added her voice to the claim telectric buses are the way of the transportation future.
“Today, 95 percent of our school buses are fueled with diesel fuel, which contributes to very serious conditions that are about health and about the ability to learn,” she said during remarks in Seattle, referring to the pollution caused by school buses.
The vice president spoke about school buses at an event promoting Biden’s attempt to replace diesel powered school buses with electric ones.
Harris claimed electric school buses represented everything the Biden administration stood for, including saving the planet from global warming.
“We owe it to our children to, right now, take these issues very seriously. The clock is ticking loudly,” she said. “We are witnessing, around our country and around the world, the effects of extreme climate.”
Kamala Cringe: VP Bizarrely Gushes About School Buses pic.twitter.com/HuI5a7vMTS
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 27, 2022
Monday’s announcement covers the second round of grants for electric buses and supporting infrastructure, the AP report sets out.
All told, the U.S. has invested a total of $3.3 billion in the projects so far. Government officials expect to award roughly $5 billion more over the next three years.
The Seattle area will be getting $33.5 million to purchase 30 electric battery buses and chargers.
Workers convert a diesel school bus into an electric school bus at the Unique Electric Solutions facility in Holbrook, New York, US, on Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty)
The Washington, DC, transit authority will use $104 million to make a bus garage an electric facility and buy roughly 100 electric battery buses.
Money also is going outside of major U.S. cities, with Iowa City, Iowa, and the Seneca Nation in Western New York also receiving grants to embrace electric buses and low emission vehicles.
