Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English, written by Brianna Blake with Steve Herman and Deborah Block.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

Earlier in the week, the president directed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to look for ways to block the bonuses.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The deformed cells block blood vessels and cut off the flow of oxygen to tissue in the body.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Opponents in Congress say they will try to block some measures in the new law.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

It wasn't easy, but we slowly rebuilt those neighborhoods one block at a time, and in the process I received the best education I ever had."

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Other kinds of operations can block the spread of electrical activity in the brain.

VOA: special.2010.10.26

He come in,I block his shot.' And sure enough, he blocked his shot.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

He wanted to bomb Chinese bases in Manchuria and block Chinese ports.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

They now have enough seats to block legislation in the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Many antibiotic medicines currently in use block bacterial ribosomes from action.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

The goal is to block abnormal electrical activity in the heart.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

He began a struggle in the Senate to block it.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

In the front is Harlon Block, a Marine from Yorktown,Texas.

VOA: special.2011.05.30