A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

To take the American case for example, does it mean that something like the presidency, the congress and the court can be discerned ? within the soul of every American citizen?

举美国为例，是否透过,总统制、国会及法庭等,就可以辨别,每位美国公民的灵魂？

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Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Sixty years later, President Obama awarded the British musician the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for American Song.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The Lomaxes went to Washington to examine the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

In nineteen thirty-four, John Lomax became honorary consultant and curator of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress collects recorded stories and written histories from veterans.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

It has been performed in several cities. Maurice Sendak has won many awards including the "Living Legend" honor from the American Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

But he said Congress did not have power to close new territory to any American citizen.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

He says Congress can only act intelligently and boldly on the issue of climate change if the American public gives it no other choice.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But he says the American public can force Congress to pay more attention to this subject.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Instead,Congress called it Utah, after the Ute tribe of Native American Indians that lived there.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

President John Kennedy set the goal in a speech to Congress and the American people.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

By the end of the century, Congress had made Hawaii an American territory.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Congress had set the levels high to protect American industry from foreign competition.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Congress had become the strongest of the three branches of the American government.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Congress did that in February with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

She was a member of the American Artists Congress.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress -- and in the American body politic writ large -- to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

The president will deliver his State of the Union Address to Congress and the American people on Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

Among the environmentally significant bills Congress passed last year was the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But Cuban American representatives in Congress strongly oppose any relaxing of restrictions on relations with Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

A little more than a year after Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Barack Obama says the U.S.economy is on the path to recovery.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

That accord mandated by the U.S.Congress is a necessary prerequisite for American aerospace firms to bid on a pending Indian purchase of 126 multi-role fighter jets, potentially the largest-ever arms sale.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Just before the president spoke, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared before reporters on Capitol Hill to voice confidence, saying Congress was a day closer to making history for the American people.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

And last June,says Sittenfeld, the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the first bill out of either chamber of Congress to directly take on the challenge of global warming.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Republicans also link potential costs with what they say is the failure so far of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the $787 billion stimulus plan approved by Congress to speed up economic recovery, an assertion the president and Democrats reject.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21