"If the public option is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe the debt can break America," he said.

“如果法案中包含有公共选择的内容，我的良心让我将不会允许这个法案进入最后的投票过程，因为我相信它产生的债务将使美国破产。”他说。

youdao

Do these people vote in elections based on their conscience?

这些人是摸着自己的良心在选举投票吗？

youdao

I stand here not as a, supplicant. Vote as your moral conscience dictates to you.

我站在这里并非要恳求什么，你们只管按照道德良知告诉你们的去投票。

youdao

It could quite easily and quite legitimately have been put under the category of a conscience vote.

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The Ulster Unionists allow for a conscience vote on moral issues.

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Parliamentarians were allowed a conscience vote, and, crucially, the reform had the backing of both the Prime Minister John Key and leader of the opposition David Shearer, the BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney reports.

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