Congress: 在美国,Congress是一个可数名词,可以用于表示一个特定的立法机构,也可以用于表示多个立法机构。例如:"The United States Congress has passed a new law."(美国国会通过了一项新法律。) "There are two Congresses in China - the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's ...
Congress passed a modest measure last year to shore up the federal background checks system and approved a grant program to prevent school violence — signs that action on gun violence is possible, McConnell said. ___ WHAT ABOUT THE NRA? A National Rifle Association spokeswoman declined to comm...
It's possible the Congress Party will scrape together a majority. 国大党可能会勉强获得多数票。 柯林斯例句 Right now in Congress, they're fiddling around with the budget and so on. 此时在国会,他们正就预算案等等瞎折腾。 柯林斯例句 They want to get the plan through Congress as quickly as possi...
Passing a budget resolution, tax reform, an infrastructure package and renewing the Obamacare repeal-and-replace effort are also on the list of things Congress wants to pass, but they're not required -- they are only supplemental items on the Republican agenda. It's unclear if Congress will ...
“The budget bill passed by Congress last week cuts the DEAs funding for any marijuana enforcement in any lawful/medical state,” said Hoban. “It also prevents the DEA from spending any money on CBD enforcement.” —Written for MainStreet by Juliette Fairley ...
Transcript: Rep. Maxwell Frost on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 13, 2024 In late September,Congress passed a short-term spending billthat authorized FEMA to utilize the agency's fiscal year 2025 resources sooner, drawing $20 billion from its disaster relief fund. However, the...
(the beginning of the fiscal year) just four times in the last 40 years. However, from 2011 to 2016, not a single appropriations bill passed by itself. For the last 7 out of 10 years, Congress has failed to pass a budget. Finally, the last time the Congress passed all 12 of its ...
The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a short-term spending bill that would extend government funding until March, a few hours after the bill was approved by the Senate, as funding for some federal agencies and pr...
Has the Congressional Budget Office Joined the Push for Cutting Social Security? Over the last three decades the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has built up a reputation for solid impartial analysis of economic and policy issues. While the party controlling Congress gets to select the head of ...
The poll comes just weeks after Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, was elected as speaker of the House and after Congress passed a major budget deal to raise spending limits and lift the debt ceiling into March 2017. Lawmakers still must pass a spending package before the Dec. 11 deadline to fund ...