美国财政僵局亟待打破(1/2)

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两党斗争加剧美国财政僵局，双边对话能否解决问题？
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Harry Reid
Mitch McConnell
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Fiscal talks broke down Saturday between Republican leaders in the House of Representatives and the White House. In the Senate, meanwhile, Republicans blocked a Democratic bill to raise America's borrowing limit for more than a year, and Democrats rejected a Republican proposal with short-term fixes to the debt limit and the federal shutdown. Discussions are continuing in the Senate between Majority Leader Harry Reid and his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell.

"Senator McConnell and I have been in this body a long time. We've done things for a long time together. I know him, it's like, he knows me. We don't agree on everything."

McConnell has long advocated dialogue.
"Talk, we should. The American people have given us divided government. And when you have divided government, it means you have to talk to each other."周六，众议院共和党领导人与白宫的财政谈判破裂。与此同时，在参议院，共和党否决了民主党提出的为期一年多的债务上限提高方案，而民主党也驳回了共和党提出的解决债务上限和联邦政府停摆的短期办法的提议。谈判仍在参议院继续，双方分别是多数党领袖哈里·里德与共和党领袖米挈·麦康诺。
“麦康诺议员和我在参议院共事相当久了，都很了解彼此。我们在很多事上都持有异见。”
麦康诺一直都倡导对话：“我们理应谈判。美国人民选择了分权政府。既然身在分权政府，就意味着必须谈判。”