WILLIAM BRANGHAM:Good evening and thank you for joining us. Donald Trump's presidential campaign is in full throttle damage control mode following yesterday's release of an 11-year-old videotape showing him making vulgar, sexual, remarks demeaning to

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 PBS访谈社会系列

今天我们要学的词是ceiling。Ceiling, 是房间天花板的意思,可以引伸为上限。美国现行联邦债务上限是14.3万亿美元。 Some Republican lawmakers are opposed to raising the debt ceiling without tackling government spe

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Opposition research 反对派调查 Digging dirt, digitally 电子版发奸擿伏 How to ensure that dumb things politicians say get a wide audience 怎样保证政客们把持的那些不为人知叫座连连 One of the houses the Clintons bought wh

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WASHINGTON, May 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday congratulated Mitt Romney for clinching the Republican presidential nomination, while their campaign teams attack each other in an increasingly relentless manner. The two candida

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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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U. S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will pledge to restore the Promise of America when he takes the stage to accept his party's nomination Thursday night. Aides have been touting Thursday's address to the Republican National Conventio

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U.S. President Barack Obama says after more than a decade of war in Afghanistan, it is time to focus on nation building here at home. Obama said in his weekly address that Americans must ask themselves what kind of country the troops are returning to

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WASHINGTON Later this week, U.S. lawmakers will hold the first hearings into the prisoner swap that freed Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in return for five Taliban detainees. Sergeant Bergdahl is reported to be claiming he was beaten, tortured, and held

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U.S. President Barack Obama has called on Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote what he says is the right way on tax cuts. In his weekly address Saturday, Obama urged Republicans to stop holding tax cuts for middle class families and sm

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President Barack Obama says improving math and science education are key to the United States competing for new jobs and industries(工业,产业). Mr. Obama recorded his weekly address during a visit to Intel Corporation in the western United St

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President Barack Obama met with a group of state governors from his Democratic Party on Friday, to discuss ways to boost the U.S. economy and deal with state budget crises(危机). The governors said they did not talk about the ongoing budget furor i

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With just over six months to go before the U.S. presidential election, President Barack Obama plans to use events next week in key election battleground states to formally kick off his campaign against the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

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U.S. labor leaders met with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, calling on him to reject deep cuts in pensions and health care for the elderly as he works to resolve crucial government financial issues by the end of the year. Newly re-elected, Obama i

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The White House on Thursday said President Barack Obama will stick to his Vice President Joe Biden as running mate, after comments by Biden prompted Republican calls for Obama to change his running mate. White House Sp

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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 political class first sat up and paid real attention to the tea-party movement two years ago, when its acolytes in Utah ended the career of Bob Bennett, a venerable Republican senator, by denying him the partys nomination for his re-election bid.

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A new poll indicates U.S. President Barack Obama would beat Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney in a hypothetical election matchup. The ABC News-Washington Post survey shows President Obama ahead 51 percent to 45 percent among registered

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WASHINGTON Supporters of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were offended this week when a prominent Republican strategist questioned her health amid mounting speculation that Clinton will run for president in 2016. This could be an early

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The U.S. House of Representatives late Monday passed a bill to raise the country's debt ceiling in exchange for cuts in government spending - one day ahead of a potential default on America's $14.3 trillion national debt. The action now shifts to the

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President Barack Obama says a new report that says the rich are getting richer while the middle class struggles shows Republicans in Congress are not paying attention to the economic situation in the United States. Obama said in his weekly address Sa

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