VOA常速英语2007-Bush Says Congress is Not Getting Its Work Done
时间：2019-01-31 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA常速英语（十月）
White House
30 October 2007
President Bush is criticizing the Democratic led Congress for failing to approve legislation to fund the government. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Democrats 1 say the president is blocking a bill that would expand health coverage 2 for poor children.
President Bush says Congress is not getting its work done. "The House of Representatives has wasted valuable time on a constant stream of investigations 3. And the Senate has wasted valuable time on an endless series of failed votes to pull our troops out of Iraq," he said.
Since taking control of Congress earlier this year, Democrats in the House have investigated the Justice Department's firing of several prosecutors 4. Senate Democrats have tried unsuccessfully to force the president to set a timetable for the withdrawal 5 of U.S. troops from Iraq.
President Bush says they should have been passing appropriations 6 bills to fund the federal government.
Democrats are now considering combining appropriations for the Defense 7 Department and Veterans' Administrations with labor 8, health, and education spending. If they do, the president says he will veto what he calls a three-bill pile-up. "It is hard to imagine a more cynical 9 political strategy than trying to hold hostage funding for our troops in combat and our wounded warriors 10 in order to extract $11 billion in additional social spending," he said.
The president says Democrats are trying to raise taxes in legislation on farming, energy, small businesses and a program providing health insurance for poor families.
Mr. Bush says he supports expanding that health insurance program but not as much as Democrats want because he says that would move more people off private insurance and into government-run programs.
The president has already vetoed that legislation once. Democrats are pushing it again with changes sought by some Republicans to ensure that wealthier families and undocumented illegal immigrants are not eligible 11.
California Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez says Republican lawmakers are blocking much-needed help for poor children. "Republicans in this body just can't take yes for an answer. Even after addressing their concerns in this revised bill, many of our colleagues still insisted on standing 12 with President Bush instead of with working American families," she said.
White House officials say Democrats are more interested in using the issue of children's health care to denigrate 13 the president than they are in finding a solution.
- The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
- The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
- This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。
- His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
- He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- The police were forced to make a tactical withdrawal.警方被迫进行战术撤退。
- They insisted upon a withdrawal of the statement and a public apology.他们坚持要收回那些话并公开道歉。
- More commonly, funding controls are imposed in the annual appropriations process. 更普遍的作法是，拨款控制被规定在年度拨款手续中。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
- Should the president veto the appropriations bill, it goes back to Congress. 假如总统否决了这项拨款提案，就把它退还给国会。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
- He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。
- The enormous difficulty makes him cynical about the feasibility of the idea.由于困难很大，他对这个主意是否可行持怀疑态度。
- He was cynical that any good could come of democracy.他不相信民主会带来什么好处。
- I like reading the stories ofancient warriors. 我喜欢读有关古代武士的故事。
- The warriors speared the man to death. 武士们把那个男子戳死了。
- He is an eligible young man.他是一个合格的年轻人。
- Helen married an eligible bachelor.海伦嫁给了一个中意的单身汉。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。