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Vice President Kamala Harris claimed in May a “key role” in the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, but she has yet to make a public statement upon the Taliban overrunning Kabul Sunday. Harris confirmed to CNN’s Dana Bash that she was the “last person in the room” before President Joe Biden decided to remove all troops from Afghanistan.

Oil and gas giant ChevronTexaco used lobbyists, attorneys and trade organizations to influence Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ambitious plan to reorganize state government. To read the reports from the California Performance Review that the company helped shape visit the following sites: - CPR report on the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission: http://www.report.cpr.ca.gov/cprrpt/issrec/res/res30.htm This chapter calls for the limiting the activities of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. That agency, which issues permits for dredging and sand mining in the Bay Area, oversees activities related to Chevron's Richmond refinery. Chevron complaints that the commission is overstepping its authority,...

<p>Democrats may have lost the battle over whether Gov. Gray Davis must stand before voters in a historic recall election, but they were zeroing in Wednesday on a politically charged legal strategy that could preclude voters from picking his successor if Davis gets tossed from office.</p>