美国有线新闻 CNN 美众议院投票通过决议案 寻求终止国家紧急状态

 

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: One chamber¹ of the U.S. Congress has voted to overturn a Presidential Emergency Declaration. I'm Carl Azuz with your down the middle explanation of what that means. When he was on the campaign trail in 2016, future U.S. President Donald Trump² promised to build a wall along America's southern border with Mexico. He recently asked Congress for $5.7 billion to pay for it. Congress did not approve that. It set aside a little less than $1.4 billion for border security.

So earlier this month, the president declared a national emergency. That would allow him to access the money to build a wall or barrier without the approval of Congress, even though Congress has the Constitutional control over how the government spends public money. Presidents have been allowed to declare national emergencies under a law that was passed in 1976. And they've done that dozens of times. But under that law, Congress also has the authority to stop the emergency declaration. And while it hasn't done that before, one chamber of it, the House of Representatives, voted yesterday to overturn President Trump's emergency declaration.

So what happens next? Well, it's now up to the Senate to vote in the weeks ahead. And we don't know how that'll turn out. The House is controlled by Democrats³ who mostly disapprove⁴ of the wall. In the Senate, Republicans who mostly support the wall have a small majority. But some may still vote against the Republican president's emergency declaration because they're concerned that a future Democratic president could use the same power to do something they don't want. Even if the Senate joins the House and overturning the emergency declaration, President Trump would veto that and it would probably stand. But there are other challenges.

Sixteen states have filed a lawsuit⁵ to block the declaration from going through. President Trump said he expected that and that the Supreme⁶ Court would ultimately side with his Administration. How and when all this plays out is in the hands of Congress and the courts.

1 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。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 disapprove   

v.不赞成，不同意，不批准

参考例句：

• I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。
• She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员，但她的父母不赞成。

5 lawsuit   

n.诉讼，控诉

参考例句：

• They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
• He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。

6 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。