And on a federal holiday to boot.

(National Journal) — It was not a federal holiday on Friday for President Obama’s lawyers dealing with the Solyndra saga.

On the afternoon of Veterans Day, while most government workers were enjoying a day off, the White House sent a batch of documents to the House Energy and Commerce Committee in answer to the subpoena that House Republicans slapped on the administration about the West Wing’s involvement in Solyndra and the $535 million loan guarantee that Obama’s Energy Department awarded the now-bankrupt solar-energy firm in September 2009.

The 135 pages of documents were also made available to the media, but the most important information — related to the administration’s decision to restructure Solyndra’s loan in February 2011 — may never be made public.

The relatively small batch of documents released on Friday brings the grand total of documents the administration says it has delivered to Capitol Hill so far to 185,000. The Energy Department sent 100,000 documents earlier this week.

Senior White House officials — on a conference call Friday afternoon with reporters and also in a letter on Friday to Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns, R-Fla. — reiterated what the administration has said all along: The decision to award Solyndra its loan guarantee was made on the merits and not influenced by political donors, such as George Kaiser, the Oklahoma oil billionaire who was a big 2008 Obama supporter. Kaiser is a major investor in Solyndra.