1、标题：voa慢速英语:奥巴马签署法案保护教师工作对应音频：0812a.mp3听力内容：Obama Signs Spending Bill to Protect Teachers’JobsThis is the VOA Special English Education Report.President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare.The measure includes ten bil
2、lion dollars for education and sixteen billion for Medicaid, the joint state-federal government medical program for the poor.The legislation will help one hundred sixty thousand teachers and one hundred fifty thousand police and public service workers keep their jobs.The House of Representatives app
3、roved the bill Tuesday. House members had already begun a six-week holiday when the Senate approved the measure last week.Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi took the rare step of calling House lawmakers back to Washington to vote on the bill and send it to President Obama without delay.President Obam
4、a has stressed the importance of education for all Americans. He said this is necessary for the country to compete among some of the worlds fastest growing economies.The president spoke Monday at the University of Texas. He talked about the decrease in college graduation rates in the United States.B
5、ARACK OBAMA: In a single generation, weve fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults. That is unacceptable, but it is not irreversible. We can retake the lead.President Obama said educational success and economic well-being are linked, especially in a world
6、 economy driven by information and technology. His goal is to increase the percentage of college graduates from forty percent to sixty percent by the year twenty-twenty.The president said the federal government has already reformed the student loan system and increased tax credits for families strug
7、gling to pay college education costs.Democrats in Congress say spending for the new bill will not add to the federal budget deficit.But some Republican lawmakers criticized the measure. House Republican leader John Boehner dismissed the emergency jobs measure as more wasteful spending aimed at pleas
8、ing the Democrats traditional union allies.JOHN BOEHNER: The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs, ‘Stop! And Washington continues to spend, spend, spend.Hours before the vote Tuesday, President Obama told reporters at the White House that education and the safety of communi
9、ties should not be a political party issue.BARACK OBAMA: Those interests are widely shared throughout this country. A challenge that affects parents, children and citizens in almost every community in America should not be a Democratic problem or a Republican problem. It is an American problem.这里是VO
10、A特别英语教育报道。周二，奥巴马总统签署了一份法案，向各州拨款260亿美元，用于教育和医疗保健。该措施包括100亿美元用于教育，160亿美元用于医疗补助计划，州和联邦政府为穷人设置的联合医疗项目。该立法将帮助16万名教师，15万名警察和公共服务人员保住自己的工作。众议院于周二通过了该法案。上周，参议院通过这项措施时，参议院成员已经开始了为期六周的假期。众议院议长佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)采取了罕见的措施，将所有众议院立法者召回华盛顿，对该立法进行投票，未经延迟得将结果递交奥巴马总统。奥巴马总统已经强调了教育对所有美国人的重要性。他表示，这对于美国与世界上其他发展最快的国家进行竞争是非常
11、重要的。周一，奥巴马总统在得克萨斯大学发表讲话。他讲到了美国大学毕业率下降的问题。奥巴马：“仅仅在一代人的时间内，我们的年轻人的大学毕业率从世界第一位降低到第十二位。这是不能接受的，但是也是不能逆转的。我们要重新夺回领先地位。”奥巴马总统表示，教育的成功和经济的健康发展是密切相关的，尤其是在一个信息和技术推动的世界经济中。他的目标是在2020年之前将大学毕业生的比率从40%提高到60%。奥巴马总统表示，联邦政府已经对学生贷款体系进行了改革，并增加了那些难以承受大学教育费用的家庭增加了税收抵免金额。国会民主党表示，这项法案的支出不会着呢国家联邦预算赤字。但是一些共和党立法者对该措施提出了批评。参议院共和党领袖约翰·博纳(John Boehner)将这项法案称为“旨在取悦民主党的传统工会联盟的更加浪费的支出计划”。JOHN BOEHNER：“美国民众在声嘶力竭的叫停，而华盛顿则继续支出，支出，支出。”周二的投票之前几个小时，奥巴马总统告诉前往白宫的记者，教育和社区安全问题不应该成为政治党派之间的争端。奥巴马：“这些利益是由全国各地的民众共享的。会影响到美国几乎每一个社区的父母，孩子和所有公民的挑战不应该是共和党或民主党的问题。这是所有美国人的问题。”