Senators and representatives use private elevators, lest they have to queue with their constituents.
参议员和众议员会使用私人电梯，以免他们要和选民一起排队。
The amendment will force senators to show where they stand on the issue of sexual harassment.
该修正案将迫使参议员们表明他们在性骚扰问题上采取什么立场。
Both Senators came to Mississippi from Washington, where they had been involved in the effort to put together an emergency package to stem the crisis.
两位候选人参议员都是从华盛顿来到密西西比的。他们在首都参与了为制定因应金融危机的应急计划所作的努力。
Then, while they hit the beaches, state senators demanded further cuts.
等他们弄妥帖了，州参议员又要求削减更多开支。
But, he adds, he has heard that House Republicans are discussing with their home-state senators earmarks that they would have requested were it not for the ban.
但是，他又补充自己听说共和院同他们家乡州的议员讨论要不是禁令他们能得到多少拨款。
More and more, senators and congressmen were coming home on most weekends, traveling to more places when they got there, and making pronouncements for the local media whenever they could.
越来越多的参议员和国会议员在多数周末都回到家乡，回来后还要到更多地方走走看看，而且只要有机会就要向当地媒体发表讲话。
They include Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Louisiana's Mary Landrieu and both senators from North Dakota.
他们包括内部拉斯加的本。纳尔逊，路易斯安那州的玛丽·兰德里欧以及从北达科他州的两名议员。
Yesterday he made the best quip of the crisis, warning senators that they had no room for error “because it’s like on the Titanic: not even the first-class passengers get saved”.
昨天他针对危机作出绝妙评论，在对参议员的警告中，特雷蒙蒂指出他们已经没有犯错的余地了，“因为这就像泰坦尼克号（Titanic）：就算是头等舱的旅客也不能幸免于难”。
We don't have to ask the user what Congressional rep and senators they want to track, we just look up the location AD are able to immediately show just the delegation that's relevant to the user.
我们不需要向使用者询问他们想跟踪哪些国会代表和参议员，我们只要查看位置AD就能立刻显示跟这个使用者有关的代表团。
In 2005 a group of 11 senators wrote to George Bush urging him to send over the tobacco treaty for consideration; they noted that tobacco claims more than 400,000 American lives a year.
2005年，11名参议员联名给乔治·布什写信，敦促其认真考虑烟草公约。他们指出烟草每年夺去超过40万美国人的生命。
In 2005 a group of 11 senators wrote to George Bush urging him to send over the tobacco treaty for consideration; they noted that tobacco claims more than 400, 000 American lives a year.
2005年，11名参议员联名给乔治·布什写信，敦促其认真考虑烟草公约。他们指出烟草每年夺去超过40万美国人的生命。
If 41 senators can block a bill, and if they all happen to come from the least-populated states, politicians representing about a tenth of the population can block the work of Congress.
如果四十一位参议员就可以挡下一个法案，又如果这些参议员通通是属于人口最少的州，那么只要美国十分之一人口的代表就可以让国会停顿下来了。
The only change (in 1965) has been to require senators to shuffle out of the door when they turn 75 rather than waiting to be carried out feet first.
唯一的变化（在1965年）是要求参议员不等被移出就自动扫地出门。
Mr Blankfein gurned incredulously at some of the senators' questions, doubtless baffled that they would characterise as immoral profiteering what he views as prudent risk management.
Blankfein先生对议员们的一些问题持怀疑态度，毫无疑问他是为议员们将他认为的谨慎的风险管理定义为不道德的牟取暴利行为而感到困扰。
At a prearranged signal he had his troops kill all the senators and the richest citizens; and when they were dead he seized and held the rule of the city without any opposition from the citizenry.
在一个事先预谋的信号下，他让他的士兵杀死了所有的参议员和最富有的公民；他们死后，由于没有了任何来自公民阶级的反对，他夺取并获得了对这个城邦的统治权。
Two senators who opposed the bill heard the noise as they walked down the steps of the Capitol building.
两名反对该法案的参议员走下国会山的台阶时听到了这些噪音。
Even some Senators who voted for the plan, such as Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, say they did so reluctantly.
甚至一些投了赞成票的参议员，例如来自南卡罗来纳的共和党人格雷厄姆就表示，他们这样做并不是心甘情愿的。
Judge Sotomayor says the ruling followed established law. Even two Republican senators agreed that her rulings have generally been in what they called the mainstream.
索托马•约尔表示，她的裁决是遵循既定法律的。甚至有两名共和党参议员一致认为，她的裁决一般都是符合主流的。
“As I'm sure you've seen over the past year, voters don't like Senators who don't read bills before they vote on them, ” Packard wrote in a letter first posted on the conservative blog RedState.
“我相信你们在过去几年已经看到，选民不喜欢那些在投票之前不看账单的议员”，帕卡德在一封最初张贴在保守的博客红州(RedState)的信里写道。
To secure the support of one of the greener senators, Messrs Lieberman and Warner actually expanded its scope to include household consumption of natural gas, which they had planned to exempt.
为了得到参议员中环保人士的支持，MessrsLieberman和Warner将法案包含的范围扩大到居民的天然气消费——不过会给予豁免。
The senators said they would produce both classified and unclassified reports on their findings.
参议员说，他们将对其调查结果生成机密报告和非机密报告。
The bulk of the work will be done behind closed doors, although the senators say they will hold open hearings when possible.
大部分工作将秘密进行，虽然参议员说他们将尽可能举行公开听证会。
Senators are notorious for talking, not posing questions. But here are a few they might ask.
众所周知，参议员们喜欢夸夸其谈，不喜欢提问。但下面几个问题他们可能会问到。
Yesterday he made the best quip of the crisis, warning senators that they had no room for error "because it's like on the Titanic: not even the first-class passengers get saved".
昨天他针对危机作出绝妙评论，在对参议员的警告中，特雷蒙蒂指出他们已经没有犯错的余地了，“因为这就像泰坦尼克号（Titanic）：就算是头等舱的旅客也不能幸免于难”。
Two other Republicans, Senators James Lankford of Oklahoma and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, reacted to the news as if they had been presented with their sixth choice on a lunch menu of 10 items.
另外两名共和党人，俄克拉何马州参议员詹姆斯兰克·福德(JamesLankford)和内布拉斯加州参议员本·萨瑟(Ben Sasse)对这个新闻的反应，就好像是午餐菜单上有10个菜，而端上的是他们优选顺序中的第六个菜。
Two other Republicans, Senators James Lankford of Oklahoma and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, reacted to the news as if they had been presented with their sixth choice on a lunch menu of 10 items.
另外两名共和党人，俄克拉何马州参议员詹姆斯兰克·福德(JamesLankford)和内布拉斯加州参议员本·萨瑟(Ben Sasse)对这个新闻的反应，就好像是午餐菜单上有10个菜，而端上的是他们优选顺序中的第六个菜。
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