实际上，最近以来奥巴马先生一直折腾的是没有钱的地方，他在冻结非债券的可自由支配开支方面达成很大的协议，而这方面的开支只占预算的12%。

Indeed, Mr. Obama has lately been going where the money isn’t, making a big deal out of a freeze on nonsecurity discretionary spending, which accounts for only 12 percent of the budget.

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最成功的莫过于1990年的预算执行法案，抑制了可自由支配支出，并要求发放新补贴和减免要征收的税额。

The most successful was the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, which capped discretionary spending growth and required new entitlements or tax cuts to be paid for.

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在上世纪70和80年代，正当人们为全美国的书本着急之时，科学预算和一些其它形式的自由支配资金已经被蚕食一空。

As anxiety grew throughout the 1970s and 80s over balancing the nation's books, science budgets, along with other forms of discretionary spending, were whittled away.

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