美国有线新闻 CNN 美国政府陷停摆 国会两党开启互骂模式
时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2018年2月
美国政府陷停摆 国会两党开启互骂模式
CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: A partial shutdown in the U.S. government. That's what officially started on Friday night, and was still going when we produced this show. That's first today on CNN 10.
Congress and the president have to a?gree on funding for the U.S. government for all of its offices to stay open. They haven't. Their latest deadline to do this was Friday night. And though the House of Representatives passed a measure last week to keep the government funded temporarily, that measure failed in the Senate, and Democrats 1 and Republicans spent the weekend bl??aming each other for the roadblock.
Republicans control both chambers 2 of Congress and the White House. So, Democrats believe voters will blame Republicans for the shutdown.
But the Republican majority in the Senate is slim. They hold 51 seats to the Democrats' 49, and Republicans believe Democrats will be blamed because they filibuster 3. They moved against legislation that would have kept the government open, and there weren't enough votes in the Senate to overcome the filibuster.
So, why did Democrats filibuster? Before they approve the budget, they want an agreement to be reached on what happens to 700,000 people who came or were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. Republicans don't want to negotiate on that until enough Democrats vote to reopen the government first. So, yesterday afternoon, both sides were dug in.
Most Americans are not directly affected 4 by a government shutdown, but those who are face some uncertainty 5.
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Roughly 1.9 million government workers would be considered essential and stay on the job.
Air traffic controllers, security officers, food inspectors 6, prison guards, Social Security checks would go out. The post office would be open. But at a steep price to many workers.
MICK MULVANEY, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET: The military will still go to work. They will not get paid, OK? The border will still be patrolled. They will not get paid.
FOREMAN: Meanwhile many services would be stopped or delayed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would back down its flu tracking program even as the nation faces the worst outbreak in years. Some senior nutrition programs would be paused. Two hundred thousand passport applications went unprocessed in 1995. Congress funds much of the scientific research done in this country. In 2013, that meant some experiments went on hold and suffered costly 7 losses of data.
And in space same year, that same year, for more than two weeks, NASA reportedly stopped monitoring potentially dangerous asteroids 8. A big one, by the way, is expected to brush by Earth on February 4th.
- 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》
- The body will be removed into one of the cold storage chambers. 尸体将被移到一个冷冻间里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Mr Chambers's readable book concentrates on the middle passage: the time Ransome spent in Russia. Chambers先生的这本值得一看的书重点在中间:Ransome在俄国的那几年。 来自互联网
- A senator dragged the subject in as a filibuster.一个参议员硬把这个题目拉扯进来,作为一种阻碍议事的手法。
- The democrats organized a filibuster in the senate.民主党党员在参议院上组织了阻挠议事。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
- After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
- They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过,通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》