Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm revealed last year that she owned up to $120,000 worth of stock despite testifying under 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 worth up to $120,000 and that her husband owned $2,457.89 worth of shares in Ford Motor Company at the time of her under-oath testimony before the panel months prior.
During the 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 on May 15, 2023, and sold her remaining individual stock holdings days later, according to her letter.
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"You neglected to report it to this committee for months afterwards," Hawley asked Granholm during the hearing Tuesday. "Why did you mislead this committee?"
"Oh, my goodness," Granholm responded. "I believed that I had sold all individual stocks and I was incorrect. So, I came back as soon as I found out that, in fact, I had not sold all individual stocks."
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called for Granholm to resign on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Hawley then interrupted her, noting that she waited a month before informing the committee of the transactions.
"I did not hide it because I brought it forth to the committee when I realized that we had made a mistake," Granholm added.
In addition, the GOP lawmaker also blasted Granholm for allowing agency employees to own individual stocks. Last year, The Wall Street Journal reported that hundreds of senior DOE officials own stocks related to the agency's work, a potential conflict-of-interest violation.
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He said that senior DOE officials owning stocks reveals the "institutionalized corruption in the Department of Energy."
Granholm responded, saying officials strictly own stocks in companies in areas they do not have any influence over. She also said the agency has a strong ethics office that reviews relevant transactions.
Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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