BBC news with Steward Macintosh. The Trump administration has been celebrating after the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a legislation to repeal and replace major parts of Obama care-Barack Obama's affordable health care act. The bill wil

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US House Passes Tough Immigration Law 美众议院通过一份强硬的移民法 With a vote of 261 to 161, the House approved the Real ID Act, taking what the bill's Republican sponsors describe as a

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The House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to approve a Senate bill to averta feared fiscalcliff.The measure that sought to maintain tax cuts for most Americans but increase rates on the wealthy passed the Democratic-led Senate overwhelminglyea

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AS IT IS 2016-05-13 Trump Meets With House Leader Ryan 特朗普会见众议院领袖瑞安 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan pledged to work together despite their differences after a meeting Thursday. T

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AS IT IS 2015-10-09 US Congressman Drops Out of Race for House Speaker 美国国会议员竞选众议院议长 California Congressman Kevin McCarthy has dropped out of the race for one of the most powerful positions in the United States. Mr. McCarthy

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众议院议长的作用是什么 The Speaker of the House is second in line of succession for the presidency after the vice president. He's also the top officer of the entire House of Representatives. 众议院议长是排在副总统之后的总统第

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Lawmakers Rebuff Bush On Iran, Libya Sanctions David Swan Capitol Hill 20 Jun 2001 22:22 UTC A key U.S. House of Representatives committee has voted to keep economic 1)sanctions on Iran and Libya for

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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives will vote on an amendment of the Defense Authorization Act to restrict surveillance of the American public, a House committee announced Tuesday. The House Rules Committee on Tuesday posted

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WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly defeated an amendment of the Defense Authorization Act that would restrict surveillance of the American public by the National Security Agency (NSA). In a 205-217 vot

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美国众议院无条件通过债务上限法案 WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Xinhua)-- U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill with no provisions attached to extend the limit on the federal government's borrowing authority. The legislation,

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved President Barack Obama's plan to train and equip Syrian rebels as part of efforts to fight the Islamic State militant group. The chamber voted 273-156 to give th

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JUDY WOODRUFF: And in the other news of this day: a warning from Pope Francis that the Roman Catholic Church's moral authority is likely to fall like a house of cards unless it becomes more welcoming. He told an Italian Jesuit magazine that, The chur

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CAPITOL HILLPresident Barack Obama says the failure of the House of Representatives to pass a measure to help American workers affected by global trade pacts will directly hurt about 100,000 workers and their communities. For the sake of those worker

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美国众议院通过清洁债务上限法案 WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (Xinhua)-- U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill with no provisions attached to extend the limit on the federal government's borrowing authority. The legislation, ap

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Lexington 莱克星顿 How to win 99.6% of the vote 如何赢得99.6%的选票 Too many members of Congress are running unopposed 许多国会议员没有竞争对手 DAYS before he seeks re-election to Congress for an eighth time, Representative Mik

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缅甸众议院议长将访问美国 YANGON, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Speaker for Myanmar's House of Representative (Lower House) U Shwe Mann will lead a parliamentary delegation to pay a goodwill visit to the United States soon, said the local Union Daily

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WASHINGTON Several dozen lawmakers led by Representatives Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and John Lewis a longtime civil rights leader disrupted the US House Wednesday by staging a sit-in on the floor of the chamber to demand that the Republican le

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Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced a plan to allow local residents to vote in November on whether the nation's capital should try to become the country's 51st state. 美国首都华盛顿哥伦比亚特区市长穆丽尔鲍泽星期五宣布一

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美债大限即至 谈判仍陷僵局 美国错过提高其16.7万亿美元债务上限截止日期的可能性昨日增加。为结束华盛顿僵局而达成协议的努力在国会不了了之。 Talks to end impasse falter The chances of the US m

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今天我们要学的词是doable。 Doable, 可行的,可以做到的。 It's a difficult task, but absolutely doable, 这项工作很不好做,但是绝对可以做得到。 The management gave a green light to the proposal because they conside

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