Senate Energy and Resources Easily Approves Biden Energy Secretary Nominee Granholm

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Jennifer Granholm, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Energy, easily cleared theSenate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Wednesday with a 13-4 bipartisan vote,setting her on course for a floor vote.Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), the chair and ranking member,each voted for Granholm, as did Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (DN.M.), the latter two of whom have significant nuclear-weapons and nuclear waste sites in theirstates.