2007年VOA标准英语-US Senate Debates Supplemental Funding Request
时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(二月)
Washington
28 February 2007
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The U.S. Senate Appropriations 2 Committee has held its first round of budget hearings on the Bush administration's request for additional military funding for Iraq and Afghanistan. The $100 billion request would help pay for additional U.S. troops in Iraq. Opposition 3 Democrats 4 are strongly against the increase and they grilled 5 the president's top advisers 6 Tuesday. VOA's Mil Arcega reports.
Senate hearing with Secretary of Defense 7 Robert Gates, 27 February 2007
The budget hearings pose the most serious challenge yet to the president's Iraq war strategy. Addressing the president's top advisers, the panel's chairman, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, railed against what he called the "failed policy" in Iraq.
"Under the presidents plan, there is no end, I say, no end in sight, no plan for redeployment; no plan for diplomacy 8; no plan for engaging our international partners for improved security in the region,” said the senator. “All the president has requested is more money -- more money -- for military force and more money for ineffective reconstruction 9 efforts."
At stake is $100 billion the president says is needed in part to send six additional Army brigades to Baghdad and Anbar Province.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says the money is needed to ensure the success of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. "If these additional funds are delayed, the military will be forced to engage in costly 10 and counterproductive reprogramming actions starting this spring, in April, to make up the shortfall. Timely enactment 11 of this supplemental request is critical to ensuring our troops in the field have the resources they need."
The supplemental request of $93.4 billion is in addition to the $70 billion already appropriated for war-related costs this year. Along with the funding request was a major shift in the administration's diplomatic policy. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the senators that the U.S. was preparing to engage Iraq's neighbors, including Iran and Syria, in talks aimed at stabilizing 12 the region.
"The violence occurring within the country has a decided 13 impact on Iraq's neighbors,” the secretary told the senators. “And Iraq's neighbors as well as the international community have a clear role to play in supporting the Iraqi government's efforts to promote peace and national reconciliation 14 within the country."
The White House has accused Iran and Syria of promoting secular 15 violence in Iraq by allowing weapons and foreign fighters into the country. Despite the new diplomatic overture 16, the president's request for increased war funding is expected to face heavy scrutiny 17 when the budget appropriation 1 hearings resume.
- Our government made an appropriation for the project.我们的政府为那个工程拨出一笔款项。
- The council could note an annual appropriation for this service.议会可以为这项服务表决给他一笔常年经费。
- 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 party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
- 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》
- a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
- She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
- 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。
- The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
- This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。
- The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后,该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
- In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期,技术决定一切。
- It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
- This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
- Enactment refers to action.演出指行为的表演。
- We support the call for the enactment of a Bill of Rights.我们支持要求通过《权利法案》的呼声。
- The disulfide bridges might then be viewed primarily as stabilizing components. 二硫桥可以被看作是初级的稳定因素。 来自辞典例句
- These stabilizing design changes are usually not desirable for steady-state operation. 这些增加稳定性的设计改变通常不太符合稳态工作的要求。 来自辞典例句
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
- Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。
- We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
- Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。