LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: During the Obama administration, there were hundreds of bills introduced in state legislatures that tried to limit LGBTQ rights. But most didn't go anywhere. Now there are renewed efforts on the state level to pass so-ca

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台2月

Broadcast: Jan 11 2003 President Bush used his weekly radio address to press for Congressional action on $670 billion worth of proposed tax cuts. Democrats have a rival plan they say gives more help t

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By Barbara Schoetzau New York 31 January 2007 Caesar Borja Jr.'s dream came true Wednesday. The college student met privately with President George Bush to make the case for expanded health care coverage for all workers at the World Trade Center site

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Uganda was one of the first sub-Saharan African countries to address the HIV/AIDS crisis early on. Over the years, it's come to rely heavily on U.S. support for its prevention and treatment programs. But Congress is considering cutting hundreds of mi

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By Barry Unger Washington, DC 04 December 2006 watch Student Mental Health College can be a stressful time for many young people. Students are away from home for the first time, and have to deal with increased responsibility, as well as a heavier wo

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Pentagon Braces for Automatic Cuts Among the early signs of tough times that sequester will bring: the Pentagon this month announced will not deploy the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman to the Persian Gulf. The timing for the massive cuts is bad. A c

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US Air Force Facing Cuts in Manpower, Flying Hours Captain Frank Gilliard flies an air refueling tanker - a KC-135. The 135 can also be set up as a hospital, he said. He and all other Air Force pilots are facing an 18 percent cut in flying hours. Tha

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: There's been a lot said about the new administration's hostile stance towards the news media. President Trump has criticized entire networks and individual reporters by name, yet advocates for transparency in government say there

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KORVA COLEMAN, HOST: Four years ago, six delegates on their way to the International AIDS Conference died in the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine. Delegates and nearly 300 other people were killed hours after their flight

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About 2 thousand secondary students, teachers and their union representatives have marched in Spain's capital, Madrid. The march has coincided with the 3rd day of a week-long general strike by students, who are protesting planned cuts in the public e

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WASHINGTON, March 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday said that he opposed raising taxes to solve U.S. government's spending problem and replace the ongoing government's spending cuts. We have a spending addiction in

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Greek leaders are issuing new pleas - and warnings - ahead of a crucial vote that will determine whether Europe comes to the rescue with another bailout loan. Socialist Pasok party leader George Papandreou and New Democracy Party leader Antonis Samar

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Striking Greek transport workers brought Athens to a standstill Thursday in a new protest against austerity measures imposed by the government to secure international financing for the debt-ridden country. Public transport workers and taxi drivers wa

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WASHINGTON, March 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said that the ongoing government spending cuts will hurt U. S. families and slow the nation's economic growth. The government should manage the spending cuts as best we can, try to

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Back from his weekend Florida golf getaway, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday sounded an alarm on harms to be caused by the looming government spending cuts, but offered no concrete and long-term plan to put U.S.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday urged lawmakers to adopt smart government spending cuts to reduce economic uncertainty and bolster economic growth. The uncertainty caused by the government spending cuts is alread

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WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- One week after the federal government spending cuts took effect, U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday called on Congress to end the spending cuts to bolster the country's economic growth and job creation. We learned

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Concluding a three-day bus tour of key midwestern states, President Barack Obama said he will propose that a bipartisan congressional committee find more than $1.5 trillion in additional spending cuts, a level set in the recent debt and deficit compr

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From tomorrow the U.S-government is going to be forced to begin slashing some 85-billion dollars from its federal budget, if a deal to avoid the sequestration can't be found. US-President Barack Obama has been making a series of public appearances, w

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has joined a chorus of other Obama cabinet ministers in warning of the impending budget cuts, which are set to kick in this coming month. Kerry says the looming sequestration will undermine U.S. diplomacy. I'm particu

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