而国会早些时候也没有创建一个两党财政赤字委员会，至少这个委员会还能够来针对他自己的提议投赞成或是反对票。

Yet Congress had earlier failed to pass its own proposal to create a bipartisan deficit commission, which would at least have been able to force a yes-or-no vote on its recommendations.

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大众与传媒皮尤中心所作的一个全国民调显示，在中期选举中可能投票的中间选民倾向于投共和党的票。

A new national poll by the Pew Center for the People and the Press found that independent voters who are likely to vote in the mid-term election favor Republicans.

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6月30日，众议院筹款委员会否决了一项全面涵盖的医保议案，没有一个共和党议员投赞成票。

On June 30, the House Ways and Means Committee voted out a universal coverage bill without a single Republican vote.

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