California legislators passed a bill last year that will bring ethnic studies to all its public high schools.

加州立法者去年通过了一项法案，将在所有的公立高中开设种族研究课程。

"If the public option is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe the debt can break America," he said.

“如果法案中包含有公共选择的内容，我的良心让我将不会允许这个法案进入最后的投票过程，因为我相信它产生的债务将使美国破产。”他说。

It was passed unanimously by the Las Vegas City Council as part of a bill making it a misdemeanor to go to the bathroom in public.

这条法令由拉斯维加斯市理事会全体成员一致通过，它与在公共场所洗澡将被处以轻罪的法令同属一法案。

When parliament of Estonia was deliberating the Public Information Act, it attached the relevant requirement to the bill.

当爱沙尼亚议会考虑公共信息法案之时，议会将相关要求也附加纳入了法案。

The report was financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and involved more than 100 public health and industry experts as well as several international agencies.

报告获得比尔及梅林达•盖茨基金会的资助，并有100多位公共卫生和工业界专家以及若干国际机构参与。

Another is that the House bill includes the "public option", an idea that appeared to die during the summer but which Mrs Pelosi has given fresh life to.

另外一个原因是因为众议院的法案中包含了“公共选择”，一个貌似在夏天就元寿已尽却又被佩洛西给予了新生的构想。

Over all, the bill treats tax benefits as the equivalent of public expenditures for abortion.

总而言之，该法案将税收幽会当成是对堕胎的公共开支的等同品。

There is plenty of time for Mr Zuma to take a public stand against this rotten press bill.

还有充足的时间留给祖马先生公开表示反对那项关于媒体的糟透了的法案。

BILL EVERS: "We are having Washington, DC, having control and final say over, and supervision over and direction over, what is happening in the classrooms of America, in the public schools."

Bill Evers：“我们任职于华盛顿特区，对美国公立学校，教室里所发生的事情的控制和决定得太多，监督和指导得太多。”

The gun measure would have permitted weapons in public rights of way, but the governor said the language in the bill did not adequately define those areas.

有关枪支的法案原拟准许武器纳入公众权利之内，但是州长说，该法案的用词没有适当界定使用范围。

Some say the weakening support of late is due to public discontent at having to foot the bill for the wedding.

部分人说，近期支持率的下降是由于公众对他们必须为此次婚礼付账而感到不满。

A bill languishing in Congress, the Fair Elections Now Act, would offer public matching funds.

国会中一部逐渐式微的法案- - -现时公平选举法案，将提供公共选举资金。

At a time of financial crisis and economic downturn, we need to look very carefully at areas of public health where any lapse in current efforts will bring us a much bigger bill very soon.

在面临金融危机和经济衰退之时，我们需要十分谨慎地审视公共卫生的各个领域，在当前种种努力中有任何疏忽都会很快使我们为此付出更高昂的代价。

Emphasising just how much the bill meant to him, Obama interrupted a public meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, to announce that the Senate had just voted a few minutes earlier.

在佛罗里达迈尔斯堡的市政厅，会议被打断了一次：奥巴马宣布美国参议院就在几分钟前刚刚通过了法案，表示出这对于他有多么重要。

"The public wants progress, not positioning," said John Podesta, a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton who now heads CAP.

比尔·克林顿的前主要幕僚、现任美国进步中心负责人约翰·波德斯塔称：“公众希望的是进步而不是原地不动。”

The public pay bill has increased sharply over the past decade.

过去的十年，公共工资单大量增加。

While she voted for Mr Obama’s health-care bill, she opposed a public option, and she also opposed the union-friendly Employee Free Choice Act.

虽然她支持奥巴马的《医保法案》，却反对公众进行自由选择。 不仅如此，她还反对有利于劳工联盟的《雇员自由选择法案》， 并因此而遭到组织起来的劳工地激烈反对。

Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, worked on the bill, and said that it's passage was a victory for Let's Move! Program.

在这一议案中工作的，公共利益科学研究中心的营养政策总监Margo Wootan称：这一信息将是“行动起来”项目的一个阶段性的胜利。

Last week, a 'bill to forbid concealing one's face in public' was approved by 335 votes to one.

上周，一个“公共场合严禁遮盖面部的法案”以335票对1票，获得通过。

Senators will now debate their own proposals, with some threatening to filibuster any bill that ends up with the "public option". See article.

参议员们现在要讨论他们自己的提议，一些参议员威胁说将对任何有“公共选择”的法案进行阻挠。

Partly as a consequence, the public-sector wage bill has almost doubled over the past five years and now gobbles up about a third of the national budget.

进一步来说，正是因为如此，公共部门的工资薪酬在近五年来几乎翻倍，到现在吞占了几乎三分之一的国家财政预算。

For many conservatives, a bill must exclude such a public plan.

对于许多保守派而言，议案必须排除这样的公共计划。

The other hallmarks to Obama’s bill included new spending on schools and public-works projects and an overhaul of unemployment insurance.

奥巴马该就草案的另一项重点包括对学校及公共项目增加投入以及详细修查失业保险。

Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain have all promised to attack the public-sector wage bill by cutting or freezing wages or by reducing the number of staff.

希腊、爱尔兰、葡萄牙和西班牙都已承诺对公职部门的工资动手，要么削减或冻结工资要么裁员。

This isn't the first time the city has confronted the public dimension of a semi-private event, and it's hardly the first time anyone was irritated over whether taxpayers should foot the bill.

这早已不是第一次这个城市面临公众的半私人事件了，这也很难说是第一次人们对于纳税人是不是该买单而恼火。

Public employees’ ability to extract higher wages is limited by the willingness of taxpayers to foot the bill.

公共部门雇员能否获得高工资要受到纳税人是否愿意出钱的先知。

Bill Sr. eased his son's worries about taking Microsoft public when Bill fretted that it would be a distraction for employees.

微软在面临上市问题时，盖茨担心这会让员工分心，他的父亲打消了他的疑虑。

The Senate Finance Committee approved a sweeping health care bill last week that did not include a public option.

参议院金融委员会上星期批准了一件不包括公营计划的医改草案。