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CARL AZUZ, HOST: Fridays are awesome.

周五是极好的。

I`m Carl Azuz with your commercial-free news source for the classroom.

我是Carl Azuz,为大家播报不含商业广告的学生新闻。

First up this March 20th, President Obama announced a new executive order yesterday. It requires U.S. government agencies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The president says he wants a 40 percent reduction over the next 10 years in the types of emissions that many scientists say contribute to climate change.

今天是3月20号,昨天奥巴马总统宣布了一个新执行命令,要求美国政府机构减少温室气体排放。总统说他希望在接下来10年里减少40%众多科学家认为导致全球变暖的温室气体排放。

Government buildings will have to reduce energy use. Government agencies will have to replace their vehicles with lower emissions ones, like hybrids.

政府大楼将减少能源使用,政府机构采用低排放的混合动力车代替汽车。

But this is an order not approved by Congress, and it`s limited to government property only, which makes up a relatively small source of greenhouse gas emissions. Republicans say decisions like this hurt American jobs. And like other executive orders, the next president could reverse this decision.

但是这一决策并没有得到国会的批准,并且会给政府经济带来限制。这构成了一个相对小的温室气体排放源。共和党人说这对于美国就业工作形势造成影响。就像其他行政命令一样,下届总统可能会扭转这一决定。

President Obama also made news yesterday for suggesting that voting should be mandatory in the US. At a town hall event in Cleveland, Ohio, he was asked how to offset the influence of money in politics. The president said if everybody voted, it would be, quote, "transformative."

奥巴马总统昨天也发布消息称投票在美国应该是强制性的。在俄亥俄州克利夫兰市政厅会议哈桑他被问及到该如何弥补经济对政治造成的影响。总统说如果每个人都参与投票的话这将会是一场“变革”。

Twenty-six countries require their citizens to vote. In some places, like Australia and Belgium, people can get fined if they don`t. And if they don`t pay that fine in Belgium, they can be jailed.

26个国家要求公民投票,在一些地方像澳大利亚和比利时,如果他们不投票可能会面临罚款,但是如果在比利时不交罚款的话要被关进监狱。

The U.S. has a relatively low voter turnout rate among wealthier democracies.

美国在相对较富裕的国家里拥有较低的投票率。

In the 2012 presidential election, just over 57 percent of all eligible voters voted. In the 2014 midterm elections, it was just under 37 percent. The midterms usually have lower turnout.

在2012年总统选举的时候仅有超过57%的选民支持投票。在2014年中期选举期间,投票率低于37%。中期选举投票率通常较低。

Critics say the freedom to vote also comes the freedom not to vote. And they say that passing a law and then enforcing it would be hard to do.

批评人士认为投票自由同时应该也享有不投票的自由。他们还说通过一项法律来强制投票这种做法可能会很难实施。

CARL AZUZ, HOST: Fridays are awesome.

I`m Carl Azuz with your commercial-free news source for the classroom.

First up this March 20th, President Obama announced a new executive order yesterday. It requires U.S. government agencies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The president says he wants a 40 percent reduction over the next 10 years in the types of emissions that many scientists say contribute to climate change.

Government buildings will have to reduce energy use. Government agencies will have to replace their vehicles with lower emissions ones, like hybrids.

But this is an order not approved by Congress, and it`s limited to government property only, which makes up a relatively small source of greenhouse gas emissions. Republicans say decisions like this hurt American jobs. And like other executive orders, the next president could reverse this decision.

President Obama also made news yesterday for suggesting that voting should be mandatory in the US. At a town hall event in Cleveland, Ohio, he was asked how to offset the influence of money in politics. The president said if everybody voted, it would be, quote, "transformative."

Twenty-six countries require their citizens to vote. In some places, like Australia and Belgium, people can get fined if they don`t. And if they don`t pay that fine in Belgium, they can be jailed.

The U.S. has a relatively low voter turnout rate among wealthier democracies.

In the 2012 presidential election, just over 57 percent of all eligible voters voted. In the 2014 midterm elections, it was just under 37 percent. The midterms usually have lower turnout.

Critics say the freedom to vote also comes the freedom not to vote. And they say that passing a law and then enforcing it would be hard to do.

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