WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Justice Department on Friday provided nearly 2,400 pages of internal documents involving the controversial firing of eight U.S. attorneys, declaring it is being responsive to the demands of congressional Democrats for further document production.

In letters to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., and his Senate counterpart, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a top Justice official insisted the department is providing nearly everything sought in the congressional demands as quickly as possible.

"We continued that cooperation today by producing an additional 2,394 pages of documents. Included in today's production are unredacted (not blacked out) versions of some of the documents that we previously produced in redacted form," said Assistant Attorney General Richard Hertling.

Those unredacted documents are among those requested in a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee earlier this week.

The new documents include the names of potential candidates who were considered for possible openings among the 93 U.S. attorneys. However, Hertling said the Justice Department would continue to refuse requests for documents that identify the names of currently serving U.S. attorneys who had been considered for termination during the selection process but were left in place.