Last fall, when Congress added prescription-drug coverage to Medicare, the new law was hailed as a political masterpiece. Congressional Democrats, who overwhelmingly opposed the bill, thundered that they, too, were eager to provide a drug benefit under Medicare, but they championed alternative legislation that offered a larger drug subsidy and smaller incentives to health insurers to participate. Liberals such as Sen. Edward Kennedy were confident that the drug bill, with plenty of holes in its benefit formulas, would inevitably be expanded around the time it took effect.
Not many in Congress seemed troubled that the federal budget was deep in deficit, the nation was saddled with future expenditures for the Iraq war and virtually no health care expert believed that the legislation would fit into its projected $400-billion-over-10-years cost framework. The new law was a cynical bargain that had more to do with the 2004 election than a rational approach to the prescription-drug needs of the nation's elderly.
The prescription-drag legislation seems a compromise between competing ideologies inserted into a fixed congressional budget. Put another way, it was sausage-stuffing in the guise of lawmaking. And, what no one anticipated was the reaction of the elderly, a group that votes in disproportionate numbers.
The passage you are reading is the beginning part of a report in the original. Then, what is "This", the first word, most probably referring to?
A.An offered illustration.
B.Part of a textbook on politics.
C.What the author is going to write.
D.The principle that voters are shrewder than' most politicians believe.
第3题
业务收支以人民币以外的货币为主的企业,可以选定其中一种货币作为记账本位币和编制报表。()
A.正确
B.错误
第8题
A.会计核算以人民币为记账本位币
B.业务收支以人民币以外的货币为主的单位,可以选定其中一种货币作为记账本位币,但是编报的财务会计报告应当折算为人民币
C.由于美元是世界货币,可一直用美元进行会计核算
D.业务收支以人民币以外的货币为主的单位,可以选定其中一种货币作为记账本位币,编制财务报表时也不用折算为人民币
第9题
A.会计核算以人民币为记账本位币
B.业务收支以人民币以外的货币为主的单位,可以选定其中一种货币作为记账本位币,但是编报的财务会计报告应当折算为人民币
C.由于美元是世界货币,可一直用美元进行会计核算
D.业务收支以人民币以外的货币为主的单位,可以选定其中一种货币作为记账本位币,编制财务报表时也不用折算为人民币
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