Their chief concerns with this are,number one, the price tag of whatever proposal that Democrats are creating and,number two, the concern that their own health care will not be the same as it was before a bill gets passed,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

He moved around very slowly as if every move he made was carefully thought about before he made it.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The group had been nominated seven times before it was finally honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

It was Richard Nixon who brought home most of the troops before South Vietnam fell to the north in nineteen seventy-five.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

It was a jail that held the famous English pirate Stede Bonnet and his crew before they were hanged.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

Before the old man and old woman could stop it, the basket of babies was swept out of the boat.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

As president, it was not long before he got into trouble in the battles of politics and government.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

It was a little before one o'clock in the afternoon when Paul arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Its power was crushed. It would be more than forty years before America's steelworkers were organized again.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

It was thought that a civilian ship could get into Charleston Harbor before state forces could act.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And it was the capital of the New Mexico territory before the territory became a state.

VOA: special.2009.03.30