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congressional

/kuhn-gresh-uh-nl, kuhng-/US // kənˈgrɛʃ ə nl, kəŋ- //UK // (kənˈɡrɛʃənəl) //

国会,国会的,国会议员,美国国会

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a congress.
    • : of or relating to the Congress of the U.S.: a Congressional committee.

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Examples

  • The presentation by the House impeachment managers was a demonstration, the more welcome for its rarity, of congressional conscientiousness and meticulousness.

  • It’s very possible, though, that opinion will shift during the congressional hearings next week.

  • I think the trial is a waste of time and is the result of seething partisan anger on the part of congressional Democrats.

  • Last week, members of the Washington region’s congressional delegation said they plan to ask Congress to increase the amount of capital project money Metro receives from $150 million a year to $200 million a year, gradually over 10 years.

  • Those communities may, for instance, want to advocate to the state commission that they want the entire city to be part of one congressional district.

  • Or (horrors) he could reach out to congressional leaders in both parties to pursue bipartisan legislation.

  • She fails to appreciate the congressional and constitutional obstacles Johnson had to overcome to win passage of the bill.

  • After the Thursday prayer, the crowd of Congressional staff and lawmakers posed in the iconic, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" pose.

  • The answer is that you flip state legislatures, since in most places, state legislatures draw the congressional district lines.

  • Now tell me: How are Democrats going to win back those legislatures so that they can start drawing congressional district lines?

  • One fellow appropriated a heavy volume of Congressional documents, which he carried about several days.

  • Bound volumes of the "Congressional Record" in their original wrappers were piled in a corner.

  • In 1882 the manner of representation to the national convention was changed from congressional districts to grouping of counties.

  • He died in Washington years after, again a Senator, and is buried in the Congressional burial ground.

  • Purely as a matter of a legal exhibit, a copy of this “oath” was ordered printed in the Congressional Record, February 15, 1913.