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From NPR news in Washington, I'm Nora Raum. It's a long hot weekend in Washington where both the House and the Senate are in session, and the debt ceiling deadline looms. NPR's Louise Schiavone has the lastest. Repubilcans donimated House has slapped
2011年NPR美国国家公共电台7月
From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. President Obama says the looming debt crisis is a burden to Congress could easily lift if it just chooses to do so. NPRs Ari Shapiro reports the President, the Senate to make a statement of the White Hou
2011年NPR美国国家公共电台7月
1. The House has rejected a plan to extend a social security payroll tax cut for two months. Republican members are instead demanding that the Senate return to negotiate an extension for the entire year. President Barack Obama called the Senate's ver
美联社新闻一分钟2011(十二月)
From NPR news in Washington I am Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is on Capitol Hill attending a democratic pipe rally of sorts ahead of tomorrows land mark health care vote in the House. This debate has been a difficult debate. This process has been a
2010年NPR美国国家公共电台3月
President Obama signed the 858-billion-dollar tax-cut bill this afternoon, extending Bush-era tax rates for another two years. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, the tax bill passed the House last night with nearly equal support from Democrats and Repub
2010年NPR美国国家公共电台12月
AS IT IS 2014-07-11 Clinton Still Leads all Likely Presidential Candidates 克林顿仍然领导着所有可能的总统候选人 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got some good news in the latest public opinion survey. Survey organizers want
2014年VOA慢速英语(七)月
By Dan Robinson Washington 27 March 2007 As the Senate tries to move closer to a vote on its Iraq-Afghanistan funding bill, Democrats in the House of Representatives are signaling their readiness to talk with President Bush about the legislation. VOA
2007年VOA标准英语（三月）
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Obama spoke at the convention of disabled American veterans this afternoon. He praised veterans for their continuing commitment to help others despite facing their own difficulties. Volunteeri
2013年NPR美国国家公共电台7月
今天我们要学的词是avert。 Avert, 是避免的意思。西班牙机场工作人员威胁说，如果跟政府无法达成协议，就要在复活节期间举行罢工。不过， AENA's director said he was confident that a deal to avert the
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Anxiety(焦虑渴望) is filling the air in Washington D.C., as the clock ticks closer to a federal government shutdown with no budget approval. Lawmakers continued the debate Friday, leaving tourists in the nation's capital wondering whether it will
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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 13 June 2006 The House of Representatives has approved, by a vote of 351 to 67, $70 billion in new funding in support of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The vote comes a few days before a House debate o
2006年VOA标准英语（六月）
By Paula Wolfson Washington 13 June 2007 Congressional committees have taken legal steps to compel two former White House aides to testify in public about the controversial firing of eight federal prosecutors. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports it is the la
2007年VOA标准英语（六月）
WHITE HOUSE The Obama administration is welcoming Republican lawmakers decision not to withhold an extension of the nations borrowing limit. Republicans had threatened to allow the United States to default on its obligations if government spending we
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奥巴马警告共和党勿造新危机 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Republicans to stop political brinkmanship on government funding and debt limit in order to avert self-inflicted wounds to the econ
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1. The Republicans have regained control of the House of Representatives and made significant gains in the US Senate. It was the biggest party turnover in more than 70 years. And likely Speaker of the House John Boehner called it a repudiation of Was
美联社新闻一分钟2010(十一月)
AS IT IS 2016-06-28 Mass Killings Bring New Demands for Gun Control in America When U.S. Congressional Democrats demanded votes on gun control measures last week, Republican leaders turned off the cameras. The action is strangely similar to what cong
2016年VOA慢速英语(七)月
Leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have named nine of the 12 members of a committee that will be expected to find up to $1.5 trillion in savings to reduce the nation's deficit. The White House said Wednesday that President Barack
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The White House says it remains confident that congressional leaders can come together and work out a way to raise the U.S. debt ceiling before an August 2 deadline. A top aide to President Obama spoke as Republicans controlling the House of Represen
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The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on a Republican plan to trim government spending and raise the federal borrowing limit. The vote comes days before a deadline to avert a possible default on U.S. debt obligations that Pre
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a spending bill to fund the federal government through September. The last-minute agreement was reached nearly a week ago after intense negotiations between the White House and Congress, slashing $38.5 bil
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