The memo released by Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee states that “several e-mails produced by Argonaut to the Committee reference the fact that the layoff announcement was postponed because of the November 2 elections.” The memo does not include the name of the adviser who wrote the e-mail.

The Energy Department responded that the e-mails released by House members add little to the debate about the Solyndra loan. “The Republican report cites internal e-mail from Argonaut about the timing of a press release,” department spokesman Damien LaVera said regarding the Election Day 2010 references. “But as the 180,000 pages of documents that the Department of Energy turned over to the committee indicate, the department’s decisions about this loan were made on the merits, based on extensive review by the experts in the loan program—and nothing in this Republican committee memo changes that.”