
Jennifer Granholm, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Energy, easily cleared the Senate 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 (D-N.M.), the latter two of whom have significant nuclear-weapons and nuclear waste sites in their states. I want to thank…