The intelligence community needs a long-term bill to fix gaps in our intelligence law, not a 21 day extension.

情报机构需要一个长期法案以弥补我们在情报发上的缺陷，而不仅是21天的延期。

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Yestoday is an invalid cheque tomorrow is a term bill but today is the only cash you own so you should seize it intelligently.

昨天是一张过期支票，明天是一张期票，而今天则是你唯一拥有的现金，所以应当巧妙把握。

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The term investment portfolio conjures up visions of the truly rich—the Rockefellers, the Wal Mart Waltons, Bill Gates.

“投资组合”一词让人联想起真正的富人——洛克菲勒家族、沃尔顿家族、比尔·盖茨。

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The certainty offered by a long-term bill is precisely what America's transportation leaders--like the Champions of Change I met yesterday--need to plan confidently for tomorrow's infrastructure and begin putting our friends and neighbors back to work today.

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Given the urgency, the emergency bill will doubtless have to be rammed through before Parliament rises for the Summer, on July 19, so something in the current programme, which includes the Finance Bill, which enacts the Budget, an Opposition Day and the polishing off of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill, will have to be ditched.

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The Lords, meanwhile have Third Reading debates on the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill and the Postal Services Bill.

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