美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-02-04

 Today is Monday, January, 28th, 2013, a day immigration gets another look. For the first time ever, there is more political risk in opposing immigration reform than in supporting it. A day at the U.S housing market, signal is finally getting better. It's kind of a perfect strong of thing coming together to finally fix up markets, it's really been out of its need for four or five years. And a day Syrian rebels look to restore order. A court founded by rebels has imprisoned¹ rebels accused of committing war crimes. I'm Mitchell Tragen, and this is CNN radio news day.

First up today, a news conference on Capitol Hill that craft party lines and language barriers. That's Democratic senator Robert Menendez, pushing a new immigration proposal. CNN's Anne Lazy Borgo has the story.

Senator Charles Schumer to the podium in Washington today, he was there to unveil a new framework for immigration reform. But before the New York, Democrat² can get to the new, he had to address the odds³.

"Other bipartisan groups of senators have stood in the same spot before, trumpeting⁴ similar proposals, but we believe, this will be the year Congress finally gets it done."

To that end, Schumer and seven other senators from both sides of the aisle⁵, the so-called game of eight, the put together what they call a framework for reform.

"Our framework contains four basic pillars."

First up. 

"We created a tough but fair path to citizens."

Second.

"We reform our legal immigration system to better recognize the importance of characteristics that will help build the American economy and strengthen the American family."

Third, the group proposed toughening appointment verification.

And finally fourth.

"We establish an improve process for admitting future workers to serve our nation's workforce⁶ needs. While simultaneously⁷ protecting all workers."

Now if this press conference much was need about the bipartisan nature of this proposal. But already, there is a voice of objection on the right. Lamar Alexander is a representative from Texas and he called the measures aimlessly. For his part, House Speaker John Boehner struck a non-committal tone. Still, Schumer was optimistic.

"For the first time ever, there is more political risk in opposing immigration reform than in supporting it."

Speaking on ABC's this week, one of the so-called game of eight, Senator John McCain, he seemed to acknowledge as much.

"Look at the last election, at the last election, we are losing dramatically the Hispanic vote which we think should be ours for a variety of reasons, and we've got to understand that."

Even still, don't expect anything soon, the game of eight timetable calls for a vote in the Senate at around Spring or Summer. And if the measures pass that chamber⁸, then all 435 members of the House will have their say.

I'm Louis Poto, CNN.

1 imprisoned   

下狱，监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months. 他被判处30个月和18个月的监禁，合并执行。
• They were imprisoned for possession of drugs. 他们因拥有毒品而被监禁。

2 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

3 odds   

n.让步，机率，可能性，比率；胜败优劣之别

参考例句：

• The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
• Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？

4 trumpeting   

大声说出或宣告（trumpet的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• She is always trumpeting her son. 她总是吹嘘她儿子。
• The wind is trumpeting, a bugle calling to charge! 风在掌号。冲锋号！ 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译

5 aisle   

n.（教堂、教室、戏院等里的）过道，通道

参考例句：

• The aisle was crammed with people.过道上挤满了人。
• The girl ushered me along the aisle to my seat.引座小姐带领我沿着通道到我的座位上去。

6 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

7 simultaneously   

adv.同时发生地，同时进行地

参考例句：

• The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
• The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。

8 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。