The vote was 229 to 191, a surprising below (blow) to House Democratic leaders who pushed hard for another extension of the Protected America Act, which is itself a revision of 1978 law called the Foreign Intelligent Surveillance Act, know FISA.

投票结果是229票对191票，这对那些大力推进扩大《保护美国法案》（Protected America Act）众议院的民主党领导者们而言是一个巨大的打击。 《保护美国法案》本身是1978年一部称为《外国情报监视法案》（FISA）的修订版。

In passing its version of intelligence surveillance legislation on Tuesday the U.S Senator, voting 68 to 29, included the (a) provision President Bush and Republicans have been seeking in. It was (would) provide immunity from prosecution to tell (tele)communications companies that gave the U.S government information without a court warrant after the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks.

参议院是在周二，以68票对29票通过议案，批准 “情报监视立法”的部分，这其中包括布什总统和共和党人努力支持的条款。这将确保在911恐怖袭击后，电信公司在未经法庭批准条件下向美国政府提供情报后可获得起诉豁免权，

Congressional Democrats fort (fought) against that, setting independent in (citing pending) lawsuit against the companies, and asserting that normal legal process should be allowed to run it courts (course).

国会的民主党人士强烈反对该法案，对这些公司引为待决诉讼，并且认为应该进行正常的法律诉讼。

After a series of procedure delaying attack it (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 what (would) have been the second extension of approve for it.

在共和党采取了一些列推迟测策略后，周三，众议院开始讨论民主党的提案，从而使现有法律通过期延迟到2月16日这是为了批准该法案而作的第二次延长。

House *Judiciary a Committee chairmen John *Conyers said lawmakers should not stand *(be “stampeded”) into approving permanent legislation now, saying more time is required to examine documents among other things.

众议院司法委员会主席约翰·康耶斯说立法者现在不应该“冲动”的批准这个永久性法案，他说需要更多的时间来检查其他方面的文件。

单词:

Tactics： n.战术, 策略

Judiciary: adj.司法的, 法院的 n.司法部, 司法官, 审判员

Stamped: 顿足的, 铭刻的，有邮戳的

听写：感觉听写长进了，翻译退步了～