With the blessing of the White House, a group of Democrats in Congress is meeting to find additional budget cuts.

经白宫同意，国会中的一组民主党人正开会寻求进一步削减预算。

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Tony Blair and some members of Congress thought it was time to send in ground troops, while the House of Representatives voted to deny the use of troops without prior approval of Congress.

托尼·布莱尔和一些国会议员认为是时候派遣地面部队了，可是众议院却投票否决没有国会事先许可就派遣地面部队的提议。

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IT IS only a mid-term election, for half of the lower house of Congress and a third of the senate.

这仅仅是一次议会中期选举，争夺的仅是国会下议院半数席位以及参议院三分之一的席位。

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However,the vote did not end the conflict between Congress and the White House over the future of the South.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Although Congress failed to remove him, the vote did not end a conflict with the White House over the future of the South.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says at least ten members of Congress have received threats to themselves or their family members in recent days.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

The fact of the matter is Americans are rightfully upset by the dysfunction they see in Washington when you have, in particular, one House of Congress and one party within that House of Congress adamantly refusing to go along with a principle that is endorsed by a vast majority of the American people, including a majority of Republicans out in the country.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

But every other black member of Congress sits in the House of Representatives, where most represent gerrymandered majority-black districts.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

The president went on to cut a deal with Mr Magalhaes and the heads of the Supreme Court and the lower house of Congress on a compromise figure of 11, 500 reais a month for the civil-service salary cap.

ECONOMIST: Brazil