"We have become a nation of extremes, at least within our government, with the liberals on the Democratic side and the conservatives on the Republican side over-represented in the Congress of the United States."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

In fact, our own Senator Christopher Dodd has a bill in Congress right now to bring back the HOLC, basically.

事实上,参议员克里斯托弗·多德,已向国会提交了议案,意思就是要求恢复房主贷款公司

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The first wave was in the 1960s and, at that time, Congress had limits-- state governments had limits on the interest that savings banks could pay people on their accounts.

在20世纪60年代,那时候国会限制了...,各州政府给储蓄银行,设定了账户利率的支付上限

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"We in the Congress have a duty to tackle this problem, but the solution we settle upon should not be rushed, and the solution should not be worse than the problem we are trying to solve,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

The fact that I have one, you know, five hundred thousandth of the vote for one representative in congress is not the same thing as my having the ability to decide for myself how to use my property rights.

事实是，我只有一张选票，50万选民才票选出,一位国会议员,这与我能自己决定如何行使我的财产权,是两回事。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"There is always that dynamic to international trade and economic negotiations where the administration goes and says to the other country, 'Well,if you don't do this, then I can't tell you what the crazies in the Congress might do!'" In April,the administration will have to take a very public stand on the controversy.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

And more immediately, this weekend, as all of you are thinking the most event in the world was whatever was happening in Congress to do with Iraq, actually, the most important event in the world was taking place in England where my favorite team, portsmouth, were playing Kaj, the head TA's favorite team, Liverpool.

再举个最近的例子吧,比如这周末,在场的各位都觉得世界上最重要的事,是国会对伊拉克采取何种行动,但我觉得最重要的事发生在英格兰,我最喜爱的足球队,朴茨茅斯队,对抗助教长卡茄最喜爱的利物浦队

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Both became lawyers. They each served in the Illinois state legislature before serving one term in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

We need--and there's a lot of talk in Congress right now -we need to think about new regulations that protect individuals, much like the regulations that the HOLC and the FHA made.

现在国会里有很多人都在讨论这个问题,我们需要思考关于,能用来保护个人权益的新法规,像房主贷款公司和联邦住宅管理局的制度

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The activists gained national attention by protesting the health care reform efforts of President Obama and the Democrats in Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

In 1934, after the failure -it was actually created by Congress in 1933 and went into business in '34.

934年,金融危机后,确切来说,1933年国会批准设立FDIC,于1934年正式启动

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was free because Congress -- in the Missouri Compromise of Eighteen Twenty -- made slavery illegal in that area.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Well in a sense, the other thing that happened was, in 1934, Congress set up the Federal Housing Administration--FHA.

另一件事发生在1934年,国会建立了联邦住宅管理局,即FHA

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The United States did,too. In eighteen seventy-three, Congress passed a law that stopped the government from using silver as money.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The name honors Mister Sarbanes, the Senator who led the campaign for the project in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Walter Trifari, the head brewer, says the style is based on an old recipe found in the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

He said: "If my men starve in the streets of Washington, the smell of their bodies will force Congress to act."

VOA: special.2010.06.24

In this way, the case could be settled without deciding on the power of Congress to act on slavery in the territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

In his first message to Congress, President Arthur asked for changes in the way government jobs were filled.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The president would have become, in effect,a prime minister, requiring the support of Congress to remain in office.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Proposals to raise their taxes to help pay for the plan face objections, and not just from the Republican minority in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

For example, a newspaper might comment that a bill that was not popular passed in Congress because the supporters bulldozed the opposition.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The administration sent its general ideas to Congress in what it called "A Blueprint for Reform" to develop the next education law.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The Obama administration is seeking four hundred million dollars in immediate assistance from Congress to help Pakistan fight the insurgency within its borders.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

She says another important effort is a bill proposed this year in Congress: the Community Choice Act.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

This is because people who live in Washington,D.C., have no voting representation in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The president and his Democratic allies in Congress finally won the battle after more than a year.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Democrats in Congress say spending for the new bill will not add to the federal budget deficit.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

But insurance companies and conservatives in Congress say the so-called public option would mean unfair competition.

VOA: special.2009.09.12