Washington's new and much ballyhooed spirit of bipartisanship was dealt a stunning blow on Jan. 9 when Linda Chavez, President-elect George W. Bush's pick for Labor Secretary, withdrew. But as Chavez went quietly into the night of might-have-beens to quell the furor over her support for an illegal alien in the early 1990s, a cheer went up at the offices of the People for the American Way. There, Director Ralph G. Neas is working overtime to organize a coalition of interest groups to battle the Bush agenda.
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机译：1月9日，当选总统乔治·W·布什（George W. Bush）选举劳工部长的琳达·查韦斯（Linda Chavez）撤离时，华盛顿的两党制精神备受打击。但是，当查韦斯（Chavez）悄悄地走进了一个充满想像力的夜晚，以平息她在1990年代初期对非法外星人的支持所引起的愤怒时，在美国之路人民办公室欢呼雀跃。那里的主任拉尔夫·纳斯（Ralph G. Neas）正在加班工作，组织一个利益集团联盟与布什的议程作斗争。
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