In the U.S. Capitol on Friday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, quote, We are going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future. A Republican plan to repeal and replace the law didnt look like it was going to get enough votes in the House to

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年3月

今天我们要学的词是longshot。 Longshot, 是指冷门的、获胜机会不大的。美国MSNBC有线电视台本周举办了民主党参选人的辩论会。Dennis Kucinich, widely considered a longshot candidate, was excluded from the debate

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Twists and Turns Aplenty in US Presidential Race 美国总统竞选状况复杂曲折分享到: Even as Americans pause for this weeks Memorial Day holiday, much attention is focused on the presidential contest, where almost-daily twists and turns ar

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(五月)

President Trump is on the campaign trail in West Virginia, whipping up support for his embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Im not running, but Im really running, and thats why Im all over the place fighting for great candidates. You see

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美国税局代局长卸任前被共和党议员严厉讯问 Republican lawmakers hammered the outgoing Internal Revenue Service Commissioner, Steven Miller, Friday, over a report that IRS staff members had targeted conservative Tea Party groups for

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U.S. President Barack Obama says to support economic growth, the government has to be willing to cut spending. He says lawmakers should lead by cutting back federal spending on local projects. 美国总统奥巴马表示,为了支持经济增长,政

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2010年11月

Congressional leaders have had mixed reactions to President Barack Obama's first State of the Union speech. A number of Democratic lawmakers said the president's speech was hopeful and upbeat, while some Republicans accused the president of looking b

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President Barack Obama is promoting recent government action to spur job creation, while Republicans maintain focus on trying to discredit last year's health care reform law. 奥巴马总统正在推动政府最近增加就业机会的行动,而共和

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Hi, everybody. 大家好。 This week, I spent some time in Colorado and Texas, talking with people about what's going on in their lives. 本周,我来到了科罗拉多和德克萨斯州,与当地的人们谈论了他们当前的生活状况。

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美国有两个主要的政党,共和党和民主党。一般来说,共和党代表保守派,而民主党代表自由派。自由派和保守派在英文里就是:liberals和conservatives. Lib

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This is AP News Minute. House Intelligence Committee republicans have completed a draft report concluding that the Trump campaign didn't collude with Russia, enraging committee democrats. President Trump celebrated with an all-caps twitter post. The

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2018(三)月

Georgia businessman Herman Cain is the surprise leader in the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, according to the latest poll. But some political analysts question whether Cain has enough staying power to remain a serious conten

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2011年10月

Recent public opinion surveys suggest that Democrats might be narrowing the gap with Republicans in the battle for control of Congress in the November 2 midterm elections. The latest poll from The Washington Post and ABC News shows Republicans leadin

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The unemployment rate, the share of the American labor force that doesn`t have a job is low. It`s at 4.1 percent. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics records that as the lowest unemployment rate since the year 2000. 美国的失业率很低,为4.1%。

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Split Grows Within US Republican Party 美国共和党内部分裂加剧 WASHINGTON Public opinion polls show that Republicans have been damaged in the aftermath of the partial shutdown of the U.S. government. Conservative Tea Party supporters in Con

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2013年(十月)

Polls: Republicans Blamed for Government Shutdown 民调认为政府关门归咎于共和党 WASHINGTON Public opinion polls suggest that congressional Republicans will get most of the political blame in the wake of the partial shutdown of the U.S. g

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Tea Party Drives Republican Hardline on Government Funding 茶党等保守势力施压共和党致政府关门 A one-page letter - signed by almost one-fifth of the legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives - was a factor leading to a politica

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President Obama's latest remarks on Iran, in which he said the U.S. and the world are appalled and outraged by the Iranian government's crackdown on dissent, have met with praise but also some continuing criticism from members of Congress. The situat

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年6月

U.S. President Barack Obama is taking on Republican critics of his economic plan. After vowing to ease the partisan rhetoric in Washington, the president is turning up the heat. 美国总统奥巴马星期二就他的经济计划跟国会参众两院的

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今天我们要学的词是 supremacist. Supremacist 至上主义者。一名白人男子在美国南卡罗来纳州黑人教堂打死九人后,White supremacists quickly distanced themselves from the suspect. 白人至上主义者迅速跟枪击案嫌

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