VOA标准英语10月-NYC Mayor Bloomberg Wins Right to Run for Third T
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年（十月）
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (file photo)
The measure to extend term limits law narrowly passed by a vote of 29 to 22, following two hours of lively, and at time contentious 2, debate in the City Council.
The legislation will allow elected officials to stay in office for three consecutive 3 four-year terms. Lawmakers are currently limited to two four-year terms.
The move came at the request of New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg,who just three weeks ago announced that he wanted to be able to run for a third term in office. Mr. Bloomberg's second term expires at the end of 2009.
Bloomberg, a former Wall Street tycoon 4 and self-made billionaire, said he wants to remain the city's mayor because he believes his business savvy 5 will help steer 6 the city through tough financial times brought about by the crisis on Wall Street.
"As our economic situation has become increasingly unstable 7, the question to me has become far less about the theoretical and much more about the practical. So, to put it in very practical terms, handling this financial crisis while strengthening essential services such as education and publics safety is a challenge I want to take on for the people of New York," he said.
Bloomberg, a powerful and popular mayor, had many vocal opponents as he pushed to extend term-limits.
Referendums in the 1990s had twice confirmed the two-term limit and many New Yorkers said that only voters should be able to change the rule - not the City Council.
Council members held a heated debate before casting their vote.
Representative Charles Barron said only voters should be able to extend the term limits law. "If you do this, you are undermining the very people who vote you in to represent them, because their voices were already heard. Let the people decide.
About two-thirds of the council would have been forced out of office under the two-term limit, but they can now stand for a third term at the November 2009 election.
- The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
- Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。
- She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
- Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起，他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。
- It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
- The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
- The tycoon is on the verge of bankruptcy.那名大亨濒临破产的边缘。
- The tycoon has many servants to minister to his needs.那位大亨有很多人服侍他。
- She was a pretty savvy woman.她是个见过世面的漂亮女人。
- Where's your savvy?你的常识到哪里去了？
- If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
- It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。