立法者们花了一天争辩决议的最后措词。
Lawmakers spent the day quibbling over the final wording of the resolution.
在任的6年里，塞德曼经常与立法者进行争论。
During his six years in office, Seidman has often locked horns with lawmakers.
他们的目标是说服立法者延长失业救济的期限。
Their goal is to convince lawmakers to extend unemployment benefits.
立法者倾向于让商业人士随心所欲地监视我们的理财习惯。
The legislators lean toward letting business people track our financial habits virtually at will.
即使是最善意的立法者、法院和雇主也常常对妇女的真正需求视而不见。
Even the most well-intentioned lawmakers, courts, and employers have often been blind to the real needs of women.
加州立法者去年通过了一项法案，将在所有的公立高中开设种族研究课程。
California legislators passed a bill last year that will bring ethnic studies to all its public high schools.
欧洲新法律的浪潮肯定会给立法者带来更大的压力，要求他们减少食物浪费。
This wave of new laws in Europe will definitely put more pressure on lawmakers to reduce food waste here.
上周，立法者初步批准了一项法律，规定雇用过于瘦弱的模特走秀是犯罪行为。
Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.
美国立法者目前正在考虑一项提议，即在大多数情况下禁止使用手持设备或观看视频。
US lawmakers are currently considering proposals that would ban all use of handheld devices in most situation and prohibit watching video.
希腊立法者还没有批准这些条款，其中包括更多的削减开支，增加税收和政府资产私有化。
Greek lawmakers have yet to ratify the terms—which include more spending cuts, tax hikes and theprivatization of government assets.
一些立法者主张对那些因严重罪行而两次服刑后又被判第三次严重罪行的人判处终身监禁。
Some legislators advocate mandating a sentence of life in prison for anyone who, having twice served sentences for serious crimes, is subsequently convicted of a third serious crime.
如果你刚一走出楼梯就称他为黄鼠狼（双关语：狡猾的人），那你很难跟立法者同事进行谈判。
It is hard to negotiate with a fellow lawmaker if the next minute you walk out on the steps and call [him] a weasel.
围绕法案形成的共识表明，立法者对美国邮政管理局在政治上令人尴尬的短期崩溃感到惊慌害怕。
The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.
立法者和监管者正慢慢开始设法厘清黑暗模式相关法律的模糊之处，其最近行动开展于州级层面。
Lawmakers and regulators are slowly starting to address the ambiguity around dark patterns, most recently at the state level.
密歇根州的立法者正在争取增加该州在学校拨款中获得的份额，他们的目的是促进这项立法的通过。
Their aim was to spur passage of legislation Michigan lawmakers are debating to increase the state's share of school funding.
这些立法者认为，这一政策将大幅减少犯罪率，因为它将使那些已被证明有犯罪倾向的人永远远离街头。
These legislators argue that such a policy would reduce crime dramatically, since it would take people with a proven tendency to commit crimes off the streets permanently.
议会发言人昨日表示，伊拉克立法者预计将在周三之前就一项安全协议进行投票，该协议将使美军在伊拉克驻扎至2011年底。
Iraqi lawmakers are expected to vote on a security agreement by Wednesday, which will keep the US troops here until the end of 2011, the parliament's speaker said yesterday.
立法者和法院一直允许雇主提供这样的健康保险计划，这种保险涵盖所有已知的人类医疗伤残，但与怀孕和分娩有关的残疾除外。
The lawmakers and the courts continue to permit employers to offer employee health insurance plans that cover all known human medical disabilities except those relating to pregnancy and childbirth.
这些变化必须得到国会的整体批准或否决，这样一来，狭隘利益游说团体很难让立法者们屈从于他们的意愿。
The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.
这场法律角逐可能会耗上好几个月的时间，哪一方在法庭占上风，哪一方又会赢得公众舆论和立法者的青睐都尚不可知。
There will probably be months of legal tussling, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.
就如何以及削减多少联邦预算以换取增加国家法定举债限额的协议，立法者继续在争吵。
Legislators continue to bicker over how and how much to trim from the federal budget in exchange for an agreement to raise the nation's statutory limit on borrowing.
当投票临近时，传统基金会给每一位立法者一份两页的摘要，解释账单的内容与其带来的影响。
And when a vote is near, Heritage gives every lawmaker an easily digestible two-page document explaining what the bill contains and what its effects might be.
立法者将“购买美国货”的条款加入了今年经济刺激方案，并严格禁止在美国工作的国外技术工人人数。
Lawmakers added "Buy American" clauses to this year's stimulus package, and there are still absurdly tight limits on the number of skilled foreigners who can work in America.
当白宫和立法者正在尝试将它们缩小一万亿以上的时候，那些措施可能一次就增加上千亿美元的预算赤字。
Those measures would likely add hundreds of billions of dollars to budget deficits at a time when the White House and lawmakers are trying to narrow them by more than one trillion.
德州的立法者制定了法规将取消变性人结婚的权利，而巴基斯坦在他们的国民身份证上引进了第三种性别。
Lawmakers in Texas introduced legislation that would rescind the right of transgendered people to marry, and Pakistan introduced a third gender category on its national identity CARDS.
银行希望像过去一样，监管者会比立法者更加仁慈，他们哭诉严格的监管规定将有害竞争并阻碍经济增长。
Banks will hope that, as in the past, regulators are more sympathetic than lawmakers to their claim that tough rules will harm their competitiveness and stunt economic growth.
这次演讲发表在白宫动荡的八月之后。在八月里，许多立法者举行公共会议，针对医疗保障的争吵不断激化。
The speech came after a rocky August for the White House, in which many lawmakers held public meetings that deteriorated into Shouting matches over health care.
这次演讲发表在白宫动荡的八月之后。在八月里，许多立法者举行公共会议，针对医疗保障的争吵不断激化。
The speech came after a rocky August for the White House, in which many lawmakers held public meetings that deteriorated into Shouting matches over health care.
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