Thanks to CNN, C/SPAN and the nightly news, many lawmakers have almost become celebrities in their own right

承蒙CNN及C/SPAN和夜间新闻之抬爱，这些议员们都因个人的论调、举止成了名人。

later they tied lawmakers ’ hands in new ways

此后，他们还以新的方式束缚住了议员们的手脚。

Russian lawmakers strongly back importing nuclear waste.

俄国会支持接收核废料。

Russian lawmakers on Thursday strongly backed the government’s controversial plans to earn billions of dollars by treating the world’s nuclear waste, provoking sharp criticism from ecologists

俄罗斯国会周四对该国政府欲接受他国核废料以换取数十亿元进帐的计划表示大力支持。此举却引来环保人士的猛烈批评。

"If we don’t do this, the imminent bankruptcy of the utilities is so awful if it should occur in its effect on ratepayers that it is almost unimaginable," the bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Fred Keeley, told lawmakers before the vote

法案发起人佛瑞德议员在表决前告诉其他立法者:"如果我们不这样做，公用设施将会面临可怕的瘫痪，其后果对纳税人的影响是难以想象的。

lawmakers there support an extensive and often innovative welfare system--not on the European scale, but still bigger than in most US states and not cheap

该州的议员支持大范围的且不断创新的社会福利体系--虽然不如欧洲国家的福利体系规模大，但与美国大多数州相比，其规模还是最大的，

Her statement at a security panel meeting prompted an angry response from some lawmakers .

她在保安事务委员会会议的一番话，惹来多位立法会议员强烈不满。

The word from Albany is that the Governor and lawmakers are finally talking to each other,however sullenly.That’s good news,of a sort.

来自奥尔巴尼的消息说:州长与议员们终于互相讲话了，只是不情不愿罢了。这也应该算是好消息。

Dr Yeoh’s comments did little to pacify lawmakers , several of whom said it was a blatant conflict of interests for the health chief to head a panel investigating the health system.

立法会议员并不满意杨永强的说法。他们指责由杨永强出任委员会主席去调查医疗制度，是明显的利益冲突。

Lawmakers voted on Friday to slash university spending by 10 per cent in the coming academic year.

立法会周五通过于下个学年削减大学拨款一成。

Lawmakers yesterday passed an overwhelming vote of no confidence in two top housing officials following a series of public scandals.

连串公屋丑闻曝光后，立法会议员以大比数通过对两名房屋署高官的不信任动议。

Both corporations’ fare rise proposals yesterday triggered protests from lawmakers , some of whom were worried about the lack of a system to monitor fare rises.

两铁申请加价引来立法会议员群起反对，他们亦担心政府缺乏机制监管车费上调。

Increasingly alarmed by high-speed pursuits that are killing hundreds of people every year,police departments around the country,as well as state and Federal lawmakers ,are clamping down on the wild,Hollywood-style chases…

每年有数百人死于高速[警匪]追逐，情况越来越令人警惕。全国各地警察单位，各州以及联邦立法机关，正在限制疯狂的好莱坞式的追逐……。

SACRAMENTO, Calif.(AP)-The Assembly sent the governor a $10 billion plan Thursday aimed at keeping California’s lights on while lawmakers try to fix the state’s energy crisis

美国加州议会日前向政府递交了一个需100亿美圆的计划，旨在保证加州的照明电力供应，并解决该州的能源危机问题。

Democratic Party leader Martin Lee Chu-ming’s motion was defeated by a vote of five to 22 in the group of lawmakers returned via the functional polls and by 14 to 13 in the group returned via the Election Committee and geographical polls.

民主党主席李柱铭提出的议案在分组投票时，遭功能组别以二十二票对五票否决，并同时遭地区直选及选举委员会组别以十四对十三票否决。

Mass Appraisal Approach: Valuations done with base values per square meter with adjustment coefficients that were approved by city lawmakers .

批量评估方法:评估以每平方米基础价格加上城市立法者批准的调整系数。

He stressed that his revised budget had lost of room for give and take and suggested that lawmakers could do a good deal of tinkering without provoking another veto.

他强调说他修改过的预算有很多折冲的余地，并暗示议员们尽可略事更改，而不会招致再一次否决。

He was referring to Mr Tsang’s comments that Democratic Party lawmakers Martin Lee Chu-ming, Szeto Wah and Cheung Man-kwong were unpatriotic because they led the opposition to the national security bill.

他是响应曾宪梓早前所指，指称民主党的立法会议员李柱铭、司徒华和张文光因带头反对二十三条，不算是爱国人士。

The Chief Executive escalated the rhetoric over Falun Gong’s activities in Hong Kong by telling lawmakers that the meditation sect is a well-organised and politically motivated cult.

特首对香港法轮功活动的口诛升级:他在立法会答问大会中表示法轮功组织严密及有政治目的。

Bush has often told friends that he put Cheney in charge of his transition because he wanted lawmakers in Washington to understand that the new Vice President would be a major player

小布什经常告诉他的朋友，他之所以让切尼主管过渡期事务是因为他希望华盛顿的法律制定人明白新的副总统会是政坛的重要人物。

Many lawmakers are pronouncing the budget a nonstarter(Christian Science Monitor)

许多法律制定者们都断言说预算毫无机会成功(基督教科学箴言报)

National People’s Congress lawmakers from Shanghai, Beijing and Inner Mongolia, who met in Beijing this month, have urged the government to set up a "green wall" of trees to block the dust storms

在本月刚刚闭幕的人大会议上，来自上海、北京和内蒙古的人大代表敦促政府“建立(由树林组成的)绿色长城”，来阻挡沙尘暴的袭击。

In meetings with lawmakers Cheney holds back more than he holds forth

在与这些议员的会面中，切尼更多的时候是保持沉默，而不是滔滔不绝。

urge the Government to implement elections for the Chief Executive and lawmakers by universal suffrage

争取普选特首和立法会

Momentum behind legislation that would put a cap on credit card interest rates dissipated today as lawmakers got cold feet about making a political point that risked damage to the stock market and possibly the economy.

支持限制信用卡利率的立法今天已经声势减退，因为立法者在提出一个可能伤害股票市场和国家经济的政治主张时，失去了勇气。

only four lawmakers spoke on the motion

只有四名议员就该动议发言

||1:But Obamacare’s main provisions have gone nowhere in the Magnolia State.||2:The fight over the Medicaid expansion involved hair-raising brinkmanship.||3:Had lawmakers not voted before July 1st, the state’s entire Medicaid programme would have stopped functioning.||4:Republicans insisted an expansion was unaffordable.||5:State Medicaid costs would have increased by 7% from 2013 to 2022, estimates the Urban Institute, a think-tank.||6:That is much less than the expected 30% increase in Medicaid subsidies from the central government.||7:But the 7% rise would have been bigger than in any other state, mostly because Mississippi’s current Medicaid programme is so skimpy.

||1:但是奥巴马的医疗保障政策在马格诺利亚州却悄无声息。||2:为了抵抗医保普及政策，反对者不惜铤而走险。||3:要不是立法机关7月1日前没有进行投票表决，不然马格诺利亚的全部医保计划都将暂停。||4:共和党人坚称州政府根本支付不起医保普及政策。||5:据智囊团“城市研究所”预估，若新医保从2013年开始实施，密西西比州政府因此承担的医保资金到2022年要增加7%。||6:而中央政府的医保补贴预计要增加三成。||7:而其他州的的资金投入增幅远远不及7%，主要是因为密西西比目前的基数太小了。

||1: Most strikingly, lobbyists and politicians seem to shy away from the notion that regulation should be trimmed simply in the name of personal freedom, rather than on practical grounds. ||2: The legislature in New Hampshire (motto: “Live free or die”) recently considered a bill that would have allowed shops that already had licences to sell beer and wine to buy spirits in bulk from the state monopoly and resell them. ||3: The sponsor told his fellow lawmakers that by approving the proposal they would be “promoting limited government” and “enhancing freedoms”. ||4: The state House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans, sent the measure down to defeat, 179-123.

||1:更令人瞩目的是，游说者和政客们似乎有意避开这样的理念，法规只可以个人自由名义而不是实际名义进行调整。||2:新罕布什尔州的立法机构（口号：“活得自由，死得光荣”）最近审查一项议案，该议案允许已经拥有出售啤酒和葡萄酒执照的商店从国家垄断商店大量购进烈性酒，在进行转卖。||3:赞助商们告诉他们的立法同僚，若提案获得批准，他们可以“提倡有限政府”和“提高自由水平”。||4:受共和党控制的美国众议院以179票对123票的结果使这项议案流产。

||1:Although Aburizal Bakrie, one of Indonesia’s most prominent businessmen, lost his job as Indonesia’s welfare minister last year, he is still managing to generate lots of political controversy.||2:In October he took the reins of Golkar, the party created by Indonesia’s former strongman, Suharto.||3:Now he is trying to reshape the cabinet in his own image, calling for the suspension of the vice-president and the finance minister over their role in the bail-out of a local bank in 2008.||4:Golkar lawmakers spent much of this week interrogating the pair in public hearings.

||1:尽管印度尼西亚最卓越的商界人士之一Aburizal Bakrie在去年失去了印尼福利部部长的工作，但是他仍然在设法挑起众多的政治论战。||2:在十月他掌管了由曾经的印尼巨头Suharto所创立的Golkar党。||3:现在他正在尝试按照他自己的设想来重组内阁，并要求出于对副总统和财政部长在2008年对当地银行进行优先股分红中的职责考虑应中止他们的职务。||4:Golkar的立法者这周花了很多时间去听取公众的声音。

||1:Connecticut lawmakers agree, including some Republicans.||2:Earlier this month the state’s two legislative chambers voted to repeal capital punishment.||3:Dannel Malloy, the governor, has pledged to sign the bill when it reaches his desk, perhaps as soon as next week.||4:But Arthur O’Neill, a Republican state legislator, wants to put the matter to the people and has asked the governor to schedule a referendum.

||1:康涅狄格州的立法者同意这一观点，包括一些共和党人。||2:本月早些时候，该州参众两院投票废除死刑。||3:州长丹侬?马洛伊承诺当法案到他的案头时，他就会签署的，也许最快就在下周了。||4:但是共和党议员阿瑟?欧尼尔希望将这个问题交予民众决定，并建议州长安排一次全民公投。