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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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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Secretary of State John Kerry debated with members of the U.S. Senate Thursday in the first public hearing on the Iran nuclear deal.

星期四美国国务卿约翰·克里与美国参议院议员就伊朗核协议进行了首次公开辩论。

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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.

BBC: Knives out for Newt Gingrich, Republican frontrunner

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.

CNN: Commentary: Kennedy a worker, not a playboy

Shortly thereafter, first the Senate and ultimately the full Congress voted to ensure that such options were preserved.

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