This concern about the Bush Administration's approach to decision-making is heightened by several previous actions -- actions that suggest a pattern of behavior of which the non-summit idea appears to be but the most recent example.

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Eventually, the committee reduced its demand to focus on documents involving decision-making after the administration shut down the Fast and Furious program.

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But the senior administration official said that Mr. Obama had made no decision on the long-term troop level, and would be making no further announcements in his State of the Union address, beyond the cuts to the force this year.

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This is a risible choice, because while a senior EPA official in the Clinton administration, Goldman never met a regulation she didn't like and oversaw extremely radical, unscientific decision- and policy-making, especially toward chemicals and biotechnology.

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