John Boehner, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, called it "thought crimes" legislation and "radical social policy."

VOA: special.2009.10.31

As a result you have a lot of rural Levites who are out of business now, a lot of people who would have officiated at local shrines, and they're out of business: that probably explains the fact that Deuteronomy makes special provision for the Levites and includes them in its... in legislation, sort of social welfare legislation.

因此许多乡下的利未人丢掉了生计，许多在当地主持地方祭祀的人，也丢掉了生计：这也许解释了为什么,申命记中特别为利未人提供了给养,并把它写进了它的立法中，某种社会福利立法。

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We take, um, legislation and regulation, which is sort of how our agencies work in Washington D.C.,

我们还学习立法和规章，学习华盛顿特区的政治部门是如何做这些工作的，

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The legislation was first proposed in two thousand seven by Joe Biden, then a senator, now the vice president.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

I think it was partly the New Deal legislation that made it very strong in the United States.

我觉得部分上是因为罗斯福新政,使得30年期限在美国非常流行

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

New legislation in Congress proposes to require all states to have what is called a graduated driver licensing system.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

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

President Obama has signed legislation to make the biggest changes in the health care system in forty-five years.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

His election could also affect other areas, like climate change legislation and reforms in the financial system.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

The goal of this event is to demand that lawmakers pass new legislation on climate change and clean energy in two thousand ten.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

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

He says the United States has been somewhat of a leader in passing hate crimes legislation.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

On Monday, for the first time, President Obama offered his own version of a plan to breathe new life into the legislation in Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

President Obama has signed legislation to reform the health care system in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

In nineteen eighty-six, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation to honor women in the military.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

In eighteen sixty-two, Congress passed legislation that gave thousands of hectares to each state.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

But in Pakistan, opposition parties and the powerful military have strongly criticized the legislation.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

Republican Senator John McCain, the party's presidential candidate in two thousand eight, praised him for his ability to reach across party lines to pass important legislation.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

Republicans said the majority Democrats in Congress had ignored them in writing legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

The magazine noted that he had supported a huge amount of important legislation that affected the lives of just about every man,woman and child in the country.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

They included some of the most important pieces of legislation in the history of the country, such as the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security law.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

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

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Scott Brown opposes the health care legislation in Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

It introduced legislation in parliament this year to make it a crime to deny the Soviet victory in World War Two.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Some lawmakers are already talking about introducing legislation to cut off federal funds for holding a trial in New York.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

House members voted 209 to 193 in favor of the Democrat-backed legislation late Friday, siding largely along party lines.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

After years of corporate mergers in the financial industry, the president is calling for legislation to prevent the further consolidation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

The legislation creating the new teen licensing program is now pending in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Just before he became prime minister, Hungary introduced legislation that will potentially grant millions of ethnic Hungarians in neighboring nations Hungarian citizenship.

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

All the members of the minority party voted against the Senate measure, and only one supported the legislation passed in the House.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27