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President Barack Obama is urging the U.S. Senate to pass his financial reform legislation. The president says the bill will protect consumers, banks and the financial system. In his weekly address, President Obama says the reform bill is an ambitious
VOA标准英语2010年(五)月
President Obama also directed attention to an ongoing and enormously sensitive issue for Americans - multi-million dollar salaries, bonuses and other compensation paid to industry executives. Dan Robinson | White House 22 April 2010 US President Bara
VOA标准英语2010年(四)月
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the Obama administration is making progress in calming financial markets. Testifying before the Senate Banking committee, Geithner said a program to help banks and other financial institutions get rid of
VOA标准英语2009年(五月)
U.S. lawmakers expressed outrage in a congressional hearing on Wednesday about tens of millions of dollars in bonuses paid out by the troubled insurance conglomerate, American International Group, or AIG. Testimony by AIG's chief executive Edward Li
VOA标准英语2009年(三月)
Egyptians Rally Demanding Military Cede Power With a little more than a week before Egypt's first post-revolution elections, demonstrators turned out en masse to protest what they say is the military's attempt to prolong its temporary powers. A sea o
VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)
US Lab Says Electronic Voting Machines Easy to Hack As the primary election season gains momentum in the United States in early 2012, voters will head to the polls to cast votes for their preferred candidates. About 30 percent of Americans will use e
VOA标准英语2011年(十月)
Alleged Corruption in Washington is a Teaching Moment for Democracies Last year, Washington D.C.'s mayor Vincent Gray made headlines, when he was arrested for protesting the city's federal district status that denies residents Congressional represent
VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
US Senate at Crossroads on Iran Nuclear Bill 美国参议院走到了伊朗核问题的十字路口 WASHINGTON This week could decide the fate of a bipartisan bill allowing the U.S. Congress to review and vote on any final nuclear accord with Iran. T
VOA标准英语2015年(五月)
By Al Pessin San Salvador 02 October 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he expects to order several steps to improve the supervision of security contractors working for the U.S. military in Iraq. VOA's Al Pessin reports from San Salvador,
2007年VOA常速英语（十月）
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Congressional Republicans are making it clear they will not take any steps to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from getting fired. Here's Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MITCH MCCONNE
2018年NPR美国国家公共电台3月
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The chief of the Office of Government Ethics says his small staff has been inundated with questions and complaints about the Trump administration, but there's only so much his office can do. It coaches officials on how to obey et
2017年NPR美国国家公共电台4月
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The White House announced a plan today to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system. This is part of the administration's focus this week on the country's aging infrastructure. President Trump says the FAA has been trying to
2017年NPR美国国家公共电台6月
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. We've been reporting on how state Medicaid programs are struggling to keep up with rising prescription drug costs. States spend more than $30 billion a year on medications for the poor and disabled. Now, some states are
2018年NPR美国国家公共电台8月
The European Commission has partially lifted a ban on Indonesian airlines entering European air space. The ban was issued two years ago after the International Civil Aviation Authority identified 121 safety problems with Indonesian airlines. 欧洲委员
VOA双语新闻 2009年7月
The U.S. Congress is drafting legislation to overhaul financial regulation in the wake of the U.S. banking crisis. Lawmakers are considering establishing a regulatory body to monitor threats to the financial system. The issue was the focus of a Senat
VOA双语新闻 2009年3月
Thanks, Virginia. The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will make his first major economic announcement this morning, unveiling the governments response to the merry inquiry into financial services. The report released in December last year made wide-r
澳洲ABC新闻快递2015年
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 16 May 2007 U.S. lawmakers are demanding greater oversight of the U.S.-government funded Al-hurra television for the Middle East, amid continuing controversy over programming carried by the station in late 2006 and early
2007年VOA标准英语（五月）
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 25 October 2007 Lawmakers have sharply questioned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about allegations that the State Department withheld information of corruption in Iraq, and steps by the government of Prime Minister N
2007年VOA常速英语（十月）
By Scott Stearns White House 14 November 2007 President Bush says America's new top law enforcement official will bring clear purpose and resolve to the Justice Department. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush attended the ce
VOA常速英语2007年（十一月）
Writing in Britain's Observer newspaper, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a return to old-fashioned, conservative banking practices. It is a change for Mr. Brown who as Treasury Secretary for a decade was a proponent of the light regulatory
VOA双语新闻 2009年2月