(THE HILL) — The Obama administration withheld information from Congress and improperly fired an employee as part of a politically motivated push to end a Department of Energy (DOE) program, House Republicans say.
A report Tuesday from the House Science Committee, based on an 11-month investigation, said the Obama administration wanted to shut down the DOE’s Low-Dose Radiation Research Program — which the committee has voted to save — in order to shift funds to President Obama’s climate change priorities.
In doing so, DOE officials improperly lobbied Congress against intervening to save the program and fired a scientist when her bosses thought she lobbied in support of the radiation research, committee staff concluded.
