The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.

围绕法案形成的共识表明，立法者对美国邮政管理局在政治上令人尴尬的短期崩溃感到惊慌害怕。

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The stimulus bill is itself a mishmash of Mr Obama’s progressive priorities and short-term expedience.

刺激案本身就是一个奥巴马进步性优势和短期利益的大杂烩。

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He is anxious to ease the pain the bill will cause in the short term, though he says he believes that the costs of doing nothing will, in the long term, be much greater.

尽管他表示从长远出发什么也不做更具意义，但他仍急于减轻该议案在短期内造成的损害。

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According to a senior administration official, the president is still holding to his promise not to sign a short-term bill that extends Bush-era tax cuts across the board to buy time for a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff.

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If it came down to it, would you approve of a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown?

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After White House and congressional leaders reached agreement on the fiscal 2011 budget, Congress approved another short-term spending bill to keep the government funded through Thursday at midnight.

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