Democrats Suffer Defeat in House on US Foreign Intelligence Measure (1/3)
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The vote was 229 to 191, a surprising blow to House Democratic leaders who pushed hard for another extension of the protect America act which is itself a revision of a 1978 law called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA. In passing its version of Intelligence Surveillance legislation on Tuesday the US Senate, voting 68 to 29, included a provision president Bush and republicans have been seeking. It would provide immunity from prosecution to telecommunications companies that gave the US govenment's information without a court warrant after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Congressional Democrats
fought against that, citing pending lawsuits against the companies, and asserting that the normal legal process should be allowed to run its course.
After a series of procedural delaying tactics by Republicans Wednesday,
the House finally got down to debating the Democrat's bill to extend the existing law past its February 16 expiration date, which would have been the second extension approved for it.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John C said lawmakers should not be "stampeded" into approving permanent legislation now, saying more time is required to examine documents among other things.
单词：
revision [ri5viVEn]
n.修订, 修改, 修正, 修订本
immunity [i5mju:niti]
n.免疫性
congressional [kEn5^reFE nEl]
adj.会议的, 大会的, 国会的
tactics [5tAktiks]
n.战术, 策略
stampede [stAm5pi:d]
n.惊跑 v.惊跑
翻译：
229比191的得票数对于民主党领导来说是一个突如其来的打击,后者在自身为1978年被称为国外情报监视法案(FISA)修正案的保护美国法案中付出了极大的努力。在星期二的情报监视立法的表决中，美国参议院最后的投票数为68比29，其中包括总统布什和共和党人一直在寻求的条款。这将提供一项免疫，即对在911恐怖袭击以后给美国政府提供无法律保护信息的无线电通讯公司的起诉的免疫
这项决议遭到民主党委员会的反对，他们引用对这些公司未决的诉讼而且声明这个过程应该允许通过正常的法律途径来解决。
在星期三共和党人采用一系列的程序延迟的策略之后，议院最终开始为延长2月16日到期法律的期限对民主党法案进行辩论，这将是它的第二次延期。
议院司法委员会主席JC说立法者不应现在就被批准永久法律“惊跑”，并说需要更长的时间来检验这些论据。
总结：
对政治不了解厄…… 关于这方面的单词短语积累太少 有些简单的地方反而听不出来，特别是连词部分还需要多加练习。长难句的翻译需要练习。口语部分单词的熟练度不够，还需要联系，句子语法动词形式单复数。。。
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posted on 2008-02-15 22:53
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