U.S. President Barack Obama and his political opponents in Congress are moving a bit closer to reaching a compromise over contentious year-end financial issues. No deal appears imminent, but officials say the leader of the Republican-controlled House...
Obama Signs Compromise Debt Ceiling Bill President Barack Obama has signed legislation Tuesday to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, averting a potential government default only hours before the deadline. The president called the bill an important first st...
[00:03.92]The Senate is one of the two lawmaking bodies of the United States Congress. [00:09.72]The other is the House of Representatives. [00:12.83]Both have about the same amount of power. [00:16.48]Both the Senate and the House of Representatives...
今天我们要学的词是compromise。 Compromise, 有妥协、让步的意思。I will not compromise my principles. 意思是我在原则问题上绝不让步。Marriage is all about compromise. 意思是婚姻要靠妥协让步来维系。如今,...
President Bush is urging members of the U.S. Congress to overcome their differences and pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The president acknowledges reaching a compromise will not be easy. 美国总统布什星期四呼吁国会议员克服...
BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In September of nineteen hundred and one, President William McKinley was assassinated. His vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, was sworn in to replace him. Roosev...
今天我们要学的词是compromise。 Compromise, 有妥协、让步的意思。I will not compromise my principles. 意思是我在原则问题上绝不让步。Marriage is all about compromise. 意思是婚姻要靠妥协让步来维系。如今,...
The International Crisis Group warns Ivory Coast's long-delayed presidential poll could lead to violent chaos if more is not done to ensure the security of the electoral process and resolve issues of nationality and voter eligibility. In a report rel...
'Red Shirt' protesters sleep behind photos of the recent violent clashes between protesters and government forces in Bangkok, Thailand, 12 May 2010 The Thai government is stepping up efforts to isolate red shirt protesters in central Bangkok by shutt...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. President Barack Obama has begun his second year in office. The forty-fourth president, and first African-American president, was inaugurated last January twentieth. BARACK OBAMA: Today I say to you that th...