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The Republican-led House has just voted to repeal the affordable health care act, President obama's signature domesticlegislation. But the vote is wildly considered as symbolic. NPR's Andrew Seabrook reports the GOP wants to make a point, even though the law was recently upheld by the US Supreme Court.

It's important to member of that, the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans and the Senate is controlled by Democrats right now. So the House of Representatives becomes the place where Republicans can show the kinds of policies that they are interested in enacting, including a completerepealof the affordable care act. But the reality of it is that isn't much more than a show, a show vote as they called it here. NPR's Andrew Seabrook covering house action on the health care law, Republicans are calling Obamacare. Mitt Romney, the Republican's presumptive presidential nominee encountered a tough audience in Houston today when he brought up Obamacare before members of the Civil Rights organization, NAACP.

If our goal is jobs, we have to stop spending over a trillion dollars more than we take in every year. And so to do that, I'm going to eliminate every non-essential expensive program I can find that includes Obamacare, and I'm going to work to reform and save.

Romney addressing the annual gathering of the NAACP earlier today, but he did drop clauses as he spoke a faith and noted various challenges confronting the African-American community including an unemployment rate that is much higher than the national average.

Federal Reserve officials appeal ready to take more action to support growth if the economy losesmomentum.

That's according to minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting released today. And NPR's John Ydstie has the details.

The minutes actually showed several members of the policy-making committee thought it was likely the fed would have to take more action, while others said it would only be warranted if the recovery slowed and inflation dropped. Since the meeting in June, there have been signs of a further growth slowdown including a disappointing employment report this past Friday. That's led many economist to believe the fed will embark on a third round of quantitative easing or QE3 in which money is injected into the economy by the fed's purchase of bonds. The tone of the June meeting and thesubsequenteconomic data suggest the possibility of QE3 has increased. John Ydstie,NPR News, Washington.

Before the close on Wall Street, Dow JonesIndustrialAverage down 49 points at 12,605 in trading of just over three billion shares; NASDAQ down nearly 0.5% at 2,888; and the S&P 500 down slightly at 1,341.
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这里是华盛顿的NPR新闻,我是拉·辛格。
共和党领衔的众议院刚刚投票推翻了负担得起的医疗保健法案,即奥巴马总统签署的一项国内立法。但是投票结果被广泛认为具有象征性。NPR新闻的安德鲁·西布鲁克报道尽管这项法律最近被美国最高法院维持原判，但共和党还是想造成一种声势。
对于成员们而言非常重要,众议院由共和党人控制而参议院现由民主党控制。所以众议院就成了共和党人显示他们有意在制定各种政策的地方, 这其中自然也包括对于完整的可支付医疗法案的废除。但它的事实是并不只是一场秀,他们在这里称呼其为投票秀。NPR新闻的安德鲁·西布鲁克展示议院对于医疗法案的做法,共和党人正在要求奥巴马医改。而米特·罗姆尼,共和党的总统提名候选人今天在休斯顿民权组织全国有色人种协进会前提出奥巴马医改时遇到一位很苛刻的群众。
如果我们的目标是工作问题,我们就不得不停止我们每年开销超过一万亿美元的开销。所以,我们要排除掉一切不必要的我会发现的昂贵程序,这其中自然也包括奥巴马的医改,而我要去工作,改革并提出看法。
罗姆尼今天早些时候在全国有色人种协进会发表年度讲话,但当他谈到一种信仰和注意到的各种非裔美国人社区中面临包括失业率远高于全国平均水平的挑战时，他确实有所缓和。
如果经济失去动力，美联储官员呼吁准备采取更多行动以支持增长。这是根据联邦公开市场委员会今天会议的发布所制定。NPR新闻的约翰·叶德斯坦有相关细节报道。
会议记录显示实际决策委员会的一些成员们认为这可能是美联储会采取更多行动,而另一些人则表示如果复苏放缓，通货膨胀率下降，这会得到保证。自6月份会议以来,有迹象表明进一步的增长放缓,其中就包括上周五令人失望的一份就业报告。这让许多经济学家们相信美联储将推出第三轮量化宽松由美联储购买债券货币注入经济。6月份会议的基调和随后的经济数据表明,第三轮量化宽松的可能性会增加。NPR新闻，约翰·叶德斯坦，华盛顿报道。
结束之前让我们看下华尔街行情,道琼斯工业指数平均下跌49点，截至12605点,成交量超过30亿股,纳斯达克指数下跌近0.5%,截至2888点;标普500指数略有下降，1341点。
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1. legislation n.法律；法规；立法

The new legislation is highy discriminatory.
新的法案有许多地方厚此薄彼。

2. repeal v.废止；撤消

He has planed to repeal a number of the current radical policies.
他已经计划撤销许多当前激进的政策。

3. momentum n.势头；动力

The sledge gained momentum as it ran down the hill.
雪橇从山上下冲时动量越来越大。

4. subsequent a.随后的；后来的

He confessed to other crimes subsequent to the bank robbery.
他供认抢劫银行案后，又坦白了其他罪行。

5. industrial a.工业的；产业的

Due to low investment, our industrial output has remained stagnant.
由于投资少，我们的工业生产一直停滞不前。