In the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

And the telephone companies in the United State, generally about 200 billion dollars a year carrying long distance telephone conversations and they thought this conversations might be carried for free over the internet was quite shocking to them. Of course free is very low price, and they are not like it to be free.

美国的各电话公司，一般大约有每年2千亿美元,来自长途电话会话，他们认为,这些会话有可能通过互联网免费传输,对他们来说是相当震惊的，当然了,免费是很低的价格了，他们不希望它免费。

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He served in the United States Senate from the state of Massachusetts for almost forty-seven years.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

It said all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States and of the state in which they lived.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

In the United States the rules for charter schools differ from state to state.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Candice wants to know if there is a state religion in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

He served in the Illinois state legislature and in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Earlier Wednesday,health officials announced the first swine flu fatality in the United States was a Mexican baby who was visiting relatives in the state of Texas.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

American Secretary of State Henry Stimson said the United States would not recognize Japanese control in these areas of China.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

In the trial, two same-sex couples argue that the state ban violates equal protection rights under the United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

He served for 8 years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in 2004.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

In the early years of the United States, it was the western part of the state of Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Since the closing of the Bank of the United States, the government had kept its money in a number of state banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

In 1864, a United States senator called for legislation to give the Yosemite Valley to the state of California as a public park.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

The state governor freed her, but only after the United States Senate ordered an investigation into conditions in the West Virginia coal fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

On Tuesday,the United States will hold congressional and state elections in a year defined by voter dissatisfaction.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

He spoke at Arizona State University in Tempe and the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis,Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

It defines the crime in terms of acts by a political or military leader against another state in violation of the United Nations Charter.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Some civilians were killed. The United States army finally seized government buildings in the state capital.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Barbara Fick is an extension agent at Oregon State University in the northwestern United States.

VOA: special.2011.06.28

Mister Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in front of the Old State Capitol Building in Springfield,Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

The resolution said simply that the people of South Carolina were ending the agreement of seventeen eighty-eight in which the state had approved the Constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Florida, in the southeastern United States, is called the Sunshine State.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

After the group was pardoned, Berhanu went to the United States, where he teaches economics at a university in the state of Pennsylvania.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

At a news briefing, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J.Crowley said the United States would take part in any meeting arranged by Solana.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

A group of 238 Jews from the United States and Canada left the comforts of home for a new life in the State of Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.08.05

In his first appearance before the UN Human Rights Council representing the United States, U.S.Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner called the report deeply flawed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

But in a statement to reporters, State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said the United States has no intention of renegotiating the Futenma plan or Guam relocation.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31