今年夏季的时候我已经说的很清楚，要停止所有赋税增加，这是我们在这次跛脚鸭会议上要优先考虑的事情。

I've made it clear going back over the summer that stopping all of the tax hikes was one of our main priorities for this lame-duck session.

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我已经为此考虑很久而最终相当清楚的做出了我的决定。

I've considered this for a long time and was quite clear when I arrived at my decision.

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由于不清楚活动持续时间有多长（现在知道是到10月14日），而且因为考虑参加与否已经花费了几周时间，我匆匆地写了几段话放了上去。

Unaware of how long the contest runs -- until Oct. 14 -- and wanting to get my entry up after pondering it for a couple of weeks, I quickly wrote a few paragraphs and threw it up.

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