Democrats Suffer Defeat in House on US Foreign Intelligence Measure (3/3)

【标准VOA】2008-02-16
Democrats Suffer Defeat in House on US Foreign Intelligence Measure (3/3)



 大意
Democrats argue that the bill will not put the Americans in danger.


 听写
“And we know what we need to do as and now isas the time is to step up and do it in order to protect the American people.” Late Wednesday, House majority leader D HSteny Hoyer asserted to reporters that even if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Law inspiresexpires, Americans will not be in danger, and the intelligence community will be able to continue intercepting communications of suspected terrorists. Expressing disappointment with the vote, Hoyer doesid not expect Democrats will attempt another short-term extension although he wouldn’t rule as this out seeing saying Democrats will use coming weeks to work on a bipartisan bill acceptable to President Bush. “In the event of this,that the Protect America Act is not extensiveextended, we never nevertheless in 10intend to go useduse the next 21 days, for the same proposes purposes that is controversy to try to see if we can reach agreement between the House and the Senate on the a bill that can would enjoy broad support in the House and the Senate.” At the same time, Hoyer renewed delegations allegations that Senate Republicans in his words has slow work walked or delay progress of the legislation in that chamber to put the House in the position of having / no alternativeor eternity but to accept unacceptable previsions.


 生词
expire 满期，届满。
allegations 断言，主张；陈述，辩解。

prevision预见，预知。

chamber议院


 翻译
“我们知道我们现在需要做的是继续保护美国人。”上星期三，众议院多数领导人SH告诉记者即使FISLA，美国人也不会面对危险，而情报机构将能继续中断嫌疑恐怖分子的交流。H表达了对投票的失望之情，尽管他说民主党将利用未来的几周出台一个总统能够接受的两党提案，他不期望民主党尝试另一个短期延长。“由于PAA不会延长，然而我们倾向于利用下一个21天，同样也是为了观察我们是否能在两院达成共识，出台一个能够赢得两院广泛支持的提案。”同时，H更新了对参议院共和党对于“拖延”立法而使得众议院不得不接受一个无法接受的法案的辩解。


 总结
翻译完了也不知道在讲什么，实在是太迷茫了……这个topic总算结束了。面壁去……
posted @ 2008-02-17 18:33 vivianliv86 阅读(14) 评论(0)  编辑  收藏 所属分类: 每日VOA 网摘收藏

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