When lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives return to work in January, they will face the task of working out differences between major health care reform legislation. Informal talks were expected to get underway even earlier, and

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年12月

AZUZ: But it wasn't until yesterday, the first time since 1788 that the Constitution's Article I Section 3 Clause 4 played out for a president's cabinet nominee. The clause says that The vice president of the United States shall be president of the S

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年2月

This is AP News Minute. Reliably republican Alabama has elected democrat Doug Jones to be its new US senator. He won a narrow victory over republican Roy Moore, who is refusing to concede. The Bangladeshi immigrant accused of setting off an explosion

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A resurgent Republican Party is basking in the afterglow of its best midterm electoral showing in 16 years. Republicans scored a huge majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, pared the Democratic majority in the Senate, and captured a slew of g

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The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation to provide $146 billion to help stimulate the ailing U.S. economy. S lightly different legislation is pending in the Senate. 美国国会众议院通过一项法案,决定提供1460亿美元来

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Our show begins with a pair of headlines. The first from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where CIA Director Mike Pompeo appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Pompeo is U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next

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Basking in the Land of Smiles What do you look for when choosing a travel destination? We all have our own ideas about what makes a great vacation, but no matter what you are looking for, there is a g

发表于:2018-12-31 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 有声英文阅读

This is AP News Minute. There is new video of the twelve boys and their coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. Video shows the group interacting with Thai navy seals and getting medical treatment. Officials are deciding how to get them out. Sen

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(153) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2018(七)月

今天我们要学的词是filibuster。Filibuster 意思是通过冗长的辩论和演讲来阻碍议事。Kentucky Senator Rand Paul staged a nearly 13-hour filibuster blocking Senate confirmation of John Brennan, President Obama's pick for CIA dir

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休会过后参议员再度展开大法官任命之争 Congress was idle last week, but three senators flew to Washington to meet with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee. 国会在上周处于休会期,但仍有3名参议员前往华盛顿

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Republican Control of Congress Could Change Obama Foreign Policy 共和党控制参议院或将改变美国外交政策 STATE DEPARTMENT With Republicans set to take control of the U.S. Senate early next year following the results of Tuesday's midter

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Global Effects of CIA-Senate Dispute Uncertain 中情局和参议院争议的全球影响 WASHINGTON The recently-exposed dispute between the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA is causing a stir in Washington. Some analysts say, though, i

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中国与泰国的文化教育交流 Kuapan Nakbubpa is an assistant professor of the Thai department at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She first came to China in 1992 at the age of 47. The big change that came with moving from all that she knew

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The U.S. Senate has scheduled a vote for Wednesday night on a new version of the $700 billion financial rescue plan. New measures in the bill are designed to win the support of lawmakers in the House of Representatives, who rejected the previous vers

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Americans go to the polls Tuesday to vote for members of the U.S. Congress as well as the president. All 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives will be up for election, along with will more than one-third of the 100-member Senate. Democrats

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President Bush says U.S. Senators must move quickly to approve a $146 billion economic stimulus plan already passed by the House of Representatives. The U.S. economy lost jobs last month for the first time in more than four years. 布什总统星期五

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The Senate Banking Committee has voted to approve the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term as head of the U.S. central bank. The move paves the way for a vote by the full Senate in January. But the committee approval

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年12月

主餐一道:泛听练习 以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握

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Steps are being taken in Thailand to wean Buddhist monks off unhealthy food after a study suggested that almost half of them are overweight. 泰国正在采取各种措施帮佛教僧侣们改掉不健康的饮食习惯,因为已有调查表明,近

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