China was just beginning to remake its economy, and I was in the first Senate delegation to witness this evolution.

中国当时正开始重建它的经济。而我在第一个参议院代表团中目睹了这一进程。

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A month removed from his first Senate election, Biden's wife and 13-month-old daughter died in a car accident, and Biden was sworn into the Senate at their bedside.

在他首次当选参议员的一个月后，拜登妻子和十三个月大的女儿死于车祸，拜登不得不在他们的床边宣誓就职。

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She became the first black woman to be elected to the Senate.

她成为第一个被选进参议院的黑人妇女。

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One week after Clay first proposed the compromise, he rose in the Senate to speak in its defense.

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yep. -Senate First talked about that. -Yes.

对，-弗斯特议院曾经提到过，-是的。

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She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

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When Romney attacked him for being, gasp, a career politician he raised a laugh by pointing out Mitt himself would have been one if he had won his first senate race.

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But, I think as many of you probably know, he traveled to Asia many times as a senator, including back in 1979 as part of the first Senate delegation to China after we normalized relations.

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When my first Senate boss, Phil Hart, was in the last stages of his battle with cancer, Kennedy spent hours by his side offering humor, Irish tales and Senate banter almost endlessly, as Chris Dodd and many others have now done for him.

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