WASHINGTON — A Congressional committee that has been investigating the Energy Department’s loan programs is adding to its line of attack on the eve of an appearance by the energy secretary before the panel.
Rachel Denny Clow/Corpus Christi Caller-Times, via Associated Press
Representatives Darrell Issa, left, and Blake Farenthold at a hearing held by Mr. Issa’s investigative committee last month.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been seeking with limited success to portray the financial support for a solar company,Solyndra, which eventually went bankrupt, as a politically inspired boon to an Obama campaign fund-raiser who was an investor in the business. But at a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, the committee is to release a staff report that argues that in other instances the Energy Department overrode the objections of some of its professional staff members to pick aid recipients that were supposed to have innovative projects when, in fact, the technology was nothing new.
“The Department of Energy manipulated analysis, ignored objections from career profess
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