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The Senate is in the midst of its first impeachment trial in more than half a decade. Senators are hearing arguments in the case of Nevada Judge Harry Claiborne, a convicted tax evader, who has refused to give up his seat on the Federal bench. Linda
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By Scott Stearns White House 24 January 2008 President Bush and Congressional leaders from both political parties have reached agreement on $150 billion in tax relief in an effort to help stimulate the U.S. economy. VOA White House Correspondent Scot
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Brazilian lawmakers have voted to back the impeachment process for President Dilma Rousseff. The lower house of Congress voted late Sunday to send the matter to the Senate, which will consider whether to put Rousseff on trial. A two-thirds majority,
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By Deborah Tate Washington 19 July 2006 watch Bush Stem Cell report The U.S. Senate has approved and sent to President Bush a bill that would allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The president opposes the measure on moral grounds,
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By Deborah Tate Washington 25 May 2006 The U.S. Senate has approved (by a 62 to 36 vote) sweeping immigration reform legislation that strengthens border security and establishes a guest worker program for the millions of illegal immigrants in the Un
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By Paula Wolfson White House 29 March 2007 The U.S. Congress and the White House have moved a step closer to a major confrontation on Iraq. The Senate has passed a war funding bill that includes wording on a troop withdrawal. VOA's Paula Wolfson repo
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One big hurdle remains before the needed legislation can be signed into law. Paula Wolfson | Washington 27 December 2009 The White House says the American people are on the verge of health-care reform. One big hurdle remains before the needed legisla
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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 28 October 2009 A key congressional committee has approved legislation to expand sanctions against Iran because of its nuclear ambitions. The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act is aimed at placing additional pressure o
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MARGARET WARNER:Five days and counting with plenty of tit-for-tat charges, but no agreement in sight, that, in short, summed up the state of affairs in Washington today as the fiscal cliff deadline loomed, Jan. 1. It would mean more than $600 billion
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GWEN IFILL:And now to the first in a series of conversations about a key issue making its way through Congress. We're calling it Inside Immigration Reform. The Senate Judiciary Committee took a big step last night toward providing a path to citizensh
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By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 26 October 2007 Bush administration officials admit that they heavily edited testimony on climate change delivered to Congress Tuesday by the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Senate Democrat
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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 09 January 2007 US Capitol, Washington DC Democratic leaders in the House chose national security as their top priority to begin their first 100 hours of action promised by Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Half the 9/11 commission
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 (Xinhua)-- The White House on Tuesday said they welcomed the House Republicans' proposal of a short-term extension of debt limit and the President would sign the bill if it could reach his desk. White House spokesman Jay Carney sa
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1. Voting has started in the 2010 midterm elections. Republicans are trying to regain control of the House and the Senate. It's expected the GOP will win back the House with the balance of the Senate still in play. President Barack Obama is expected
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At a White House ceremony, President Barack Obama has praised the outgoing Secretary of Defense as exemplary, thanking him for the job he has done. When I asked Chuck to serve as the Secretary of Defense, we were entering a significant period of tran
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美国众议院通过乌克兰援助法案 WASHINGTON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives Thursday approved legislation that would allow the Obama administration to give Ukraine 1 billion U.S. dollars of loan guarantees. The bill w
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ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: President Trump and congressional Republicans celebrated in the White House Rose Garden today after the House narrowly passed health care legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday said the Plan B pursued by the Republicans is a multi-day exercise of futility which holds back the fiscal talks. It's an exercise in Republican vote counting that will not
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Congress and the president 国会与总统 Face-off 对峙 Anyone hoping for an outbreak of good government is likely to be disappointed 想要一个良好政府的人们恐要大失所望 SPEAKING at the White House after a stinging mid-term defeat,
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JUDY WOODRUFF: We return to the U.S. Senate, where the focus today centered on Russia, from the very real threats of fake news stories to rules for engagement in a cyber-war. SEN. MARCO RUBIO, R-Fla.: Aren't we in the midst of a blitzkrieg, for a lac
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