在全国范围内，民主党候选人试图在本届选举中夺下国内一些最受关注的众议院席位，他们提出的主张如出一辙：投票给我，就能清除华盛顿的腐败问题。
Across the country, Democrats running to flip some of the nation’s most high-profile House seats this cycle are offering a similar pitch: Vote for me to clean up corruption in Washington.
尽管具体细节可能有所不同，但一位又一位候选人都在提出各自遏制不当行为的计划。大多数人的主张都围绕相似主题：禁止国会议员进行股票交易、禁止企业资金介入政治、实施任期限制——甚至包括最高法院大法官——以及限制国会议员成为游说者。
While the specifics may vary, candidate after candidate is offering their own plans to rein in malfeasance. Most hit on similar themes: ban stock trading by members of Congress, bar corporate dollars in politics, impose term limits — even on members of the Supreme Court — and restrict members of Congress from becoming lobbyists.
这是本届选举中一个更广泛趋势的一部分：民主党将腐败问题作为其广告和竞选宣传的核心内容，并常常将其融入更广泛的关于应对生活成本问题的论述中。
It’s part of a larger trend this cycle, with Democrats making corruption a central tenet of their ads and campaign messaging, often incorporating it into their broader argument about addressing the cost of living.
正在争取翻盘佛罗里达州第7选区的贝勒·达尔顿上周推出了他的提案，呼吁彻底改革他所说的“效率低下”的国会山众议院道德委员会。
Bale Dalton, who is looking to flip Florida’s 7th district, rolled out his proposal last week, calling for a complete overhaul of what he calls an “ineffective” House Ethics Committee on Capitol Hill.
该选区目前由陷入困境的共和党众议员科里·米尔斯代表。米尔斯在8月因面临涉嫌违反竞选资金规定和性不当行为的道德调查而输掉了初选。达尔顿表示，反腐败的呼声能够跨越党派界限引起共鸣。
His district is currently represented by embattled Republican Rep. Cory Mills, who lost his primary in August while facing an ethics investigation over alleged campaign finance violations and sexual misconduct. Dalton says the anti-corruption message resonates across party lines.
“人们已经忍无可忍了，”达尔顿对MS NOW表示。“他们遵纪守法，努力让孩子过上更好的生活，努力在我们当前面临的生活成本危机中维持生计，却眼睁睁看着华盛顿特区那些政客——又胖又蠢又得意——继续为自己敛财。”在弗吉尼亚州第1选区，香农·泰勒则主打“人民至上”的议程，她凭借自己担任县检察官的经历，呼吁对窃取纳税人资金的政客实施强制性监禁，并禁止股票交易和企业政治行动委员会资金。
“People are just so fed up,” Dalton told MS NOW. “They’re obeying the law, trying to make a better life for their kids, trying to make ends meet in this cost of living crisis that we’re in, and watching the politicians up in D.C. — fat, dumb and happy — continuing to line their pockets.”In Virginia’s 1st district, Shannon Taylor is pitching a “serve the people first” agenda, leaning on her time as a county prosecutor to call for mandatory jail time for politicians who steal taxpayer money and a ban on stock trading and corporate PAC money.
“所有人都对不断上涨的成本感到恐惧，”泰勒说，“同时，他们对华盛顿特区的腐败政治体系也感到非常愤怒。”她告诉MS NOW，即使国会不采取她所寻求的改革措施，她也会自行实施这些改革。
“Everyone is terrified about the rising costs,” Taylor said. “They’re also really angry about the system in D.C. being a corrupt political system.”She told MS NOW that even if Congress doesn’t act on the reforms she’s seeking, she’ll self-impose them on herself.
“如果我说不接受企业政治行动委员会的捐款，那我就不会接受。如果我说不进行任何股票交易，那我就不会做，”她说。
“If I say no corporate PAC money, then I’m not going to take it. If I say don’t do any stock trading, I’m not going to do it,” she said.
而在宾夕法尼亚州，斯克兰顿市长佩奇·科内蒂——她在前任市长因公共腐败罪认罪后，通过特别选举赢得了现任职位——也提出了自己针对华盛顿的反腐败方案，其中包括禁止股票交易。
And in Pennsylvania, Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti — who won a special election for her current job when the former leader of Scranton pleaded guilty to public corruption charges — is offering her own anti-corruption proposal for Washington, including a stock trading ban.
科内蒂的共和党对手、新任众议员罗布·布雷萨纳，因在任期间频繁进行股票交易而受到 scrutiny。他的团队此前表示，布雷萨纳“从未交易过自己的股票”，而且“他的投资由一家外部金融机构管理”。但达顿、泰勒和科内蒂并非唯一这样做的人。
Cognetti’s GOP opponent — freshman Rep. Rob Bresnahan — has faced scrutiny for his extensive stock trading while in office. His team has previously said that Bresnahan has “never traded his own stocks” and “an outside financial institution manages his investments.”But Dalton, Taylor, and Cognetti aren’t alone.
宾夕法尼亚州的鲍勃·布鲁克斯、肯塔基州的扎克·德姆博、佛罗里达州的莉拉·格雷和皮亚·丹迪亚，以及弗吉尼亚州的伊莱恩·卢里亚，只是其他一些在关键选区参选的民主党人，他们也都提出了自己的方案，以削减他们所称的华盛顿普遍存在的腐败行为。
Bob Brooks in Pennsylvania, Zach Dembo in Kentucky, Leela Gray and Pia Dandiya in Florida, and Elaine Luria in Virginia are just some of the other Democrats in key races who are offering their own proposals to cut down on what they label widespread graft in Washington.
尽管他们强调要打击腐败，但这些民主党人却未必会提及一位可能成为明年民主党针对所谓公共腐败调查核心人物的人——如果该党赢得众议院控制权，此人就是总统唐纳德·特朗普。
While they lean into a message about taking on corruption, these same Democrats are not necessarily invoking a man who is poised to be at the center of many Democratic investigations of alleged public corruption next year, should the party win control of the House: President Donald Trump.
当MS NOW询问他们是否认为特朗普和白宫存在腐败时，几位民主党人反而将整个华盛顿描绘成一个充满不当行为的温床——这种说法让他们能够广泛批评整个体系，而不是将特朗普作为其反腐败主张的唯一焦点。
Asked by MS NOW if they view Trump and the White House as corrupt, several of the Democrats instead cast all of Washington as a den of malfeasance — a message that allows them to criticize the system broadly rather than making Trump the sole focus of their anti-corruption pitch.
“目前华盛顿特区的整个体系不幸地助长了政府三大部门中普遍存在的腐败和欺诈行为，” Dalton 对 MS NOW 表示。“我对此已彻底厌倦，佛罗里达的民众也是如此。”
“The entire system in Washington D.C., right now has unfortunately enabled the level of corruption and grift across the board in all three branches of government,” Dalton told MS NOW. “I am completely fed up with it, as well as the folks in Florida are.”
Taylor 提到了她的共和党对手，并对 MS NOW 表示：“我的竞选活动将重点向第一选区的选民说明，为什么 Rob Wittman 必须被解雇，以及他为何正是华盛顿特区这个腐朽体系的化身。”
Taylor invoked her Republican opponent, telling MS NOW, “I’m going to focus my campaign on telling the voters here in the first congressional district why Rob Wittman needs to be fired and why he embodies this broken system in Washington, D.C.”
但她补充说，如果民主党人“开始谈论本届政府，那么是的，我希望所有人都要承担责任——无论是国会成员还是政府官员。”
But, she added, if Democrats “start talking about this administration, yes, I want to hold everybody accountable — people in Congress, the administration.”
而 Cognetti 则表示，关于特朗普的决定将“取决于司法委员会主席和监督委员会主席”。
And Cognetti said choices about Trump will be “up to the chair of Judiciary, the chair of Oversight.”
她转而告诉 MS NOW，她希望以“本地视角”来打击腐败，“深入研究财务状况、预算、项目和采购流程，真正证明我们能够带来改变，能够帮纳税人省钱，也能够让这些项目运行得更高效。”不过，至少有一位民主党人并未回避提及特朗普。
She instead told MS NOW she wants to bring a “local lens” to fighting corruption and “dig into the financials, dig into the budget, the programs, and the procurement, to really be able to show that we can make a difference, that we can save taxpayers money, we can make these programs work better.”At least one Democrat, though, did not shy from invoking Trump.
正在竞选宾夕法尼亚州东部席位的 Brooks 告诉 MS NOW，他推动反腐败改革的部分原因是，“我们看到唐纳德·特朗普变得极其富有，而我们在加油站和超市里却不断吃亏。”他补充道：“腐败是真实存在的，而且显而易见。我已经受够了。”
Brooks, who is running for a seat in eastern Pennsylvania, told MS NOW he is making a push for anti-corruption reforms in part because “we’re watching Donald Trump get filthy rich, and we’re losing at the gas pumps and in the grocery stores.”“The corruption is real, and you can see it. And I’m just tired,” he added.
当被问及为何要提及特朗普，而不是像一些同事那样只提到他的共和党对手时，Brooks 告诉 MS NOW：“因为他们就是一回事。”他还说：“Mackenzie 就是唐纳德·特朗普的走狗。”
Asked why invoke Trump — and not just his GOP opponent, like some of his colleagues — Brooks told MS NOW, “Because they’re one and the same.”“Mackenzie’s a lapdog for Donald Trump,” Brooks said.
在一份声明中，布鲁克斯的对手——宾夕法尼亚州共和党众议员瑞安·麦肯齐的竞选经理表示，看着布鲁克斯谈论打击腐败“令人可笑”。他提到了布鲁克斯曾面临的一起诉讼，该诉讼指控这位候选人试图欺诈其前岳母。他还指出，布鲁克斯本人——尽管他呼吁禁止议员进行股票交易——截至今年早些时候仍持有个人股票。
In a statement, the campaign manager for Brooks’ opponent — Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa. — said that watching Brooks talk about fighting corruption is “laughable.”He invoked a lawsuit that Brooks had faced alleging the candidate attempted to defraud his former mother-in-law. He also noted that Brooks himself — despite his calls to ban stock trading by lawmakers — owned individual stocks as of earlier this year.
今年夏天，麦肯齐提出了一项法案，要求联邦民选官员剥离个人股票，或将其放入保密信托。
This past summer, Mackenzie introduced a bill to require federal elected officials to divest individual stocks or put them in a blind trust.
道尔顿、泰勒和科涅蒂的共和党对手没有回应MS NOW的置评请求。
The Republican opponents of Dalton, Taylor, and Cognetti did not respond to MS NOW’s requests for comment.
全国共和党国会委员会的一位发言人淡化了民主党在这些关键战场选区的反腐败提案，称其不过是选举年的把戏。
A spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee dismissed the Democrats’ anti-corruption proposals in these key battlegrounds as little more than an election year gimmick.
“美国人民已经对自私自利的腐败程度感到厌恶，这种腐败像疱疹一样在主宰民主党的那些无耻政客中蔓延，而现在他们因为大选年突然改变腔调，”NRCC发言人迈克·马里内拉在一份声明中表示。
“Americans have been disgusted by the level of self-serving corruption that spread like herpes through the slimy politicians who run the Democrat Party, and now they’re suddenly changing their tune because it’s an election year,” NRCC Spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement.
“选民们看穿了这一假象，他们知道共和党人正在清除民主党领导人留下的烂摊子，”他补充道。
“Voters see through the facade, and they know Republicans are cleaning up the rot left behind by Democrat leaders,” he added.
值得注意的是，关于打击公职中涉嫌渎职的承诺——至少其中一项——并非民主党人独有。许多共和党人也在竞选纲领中主张限制股票交易。
Notably, the message about fighting alleged malfeasance in office — or at least one plank of it — is not unique to just Democrats. Many Republicans too are running on restricting stock trading.
在上个月于得克萨斯州举行的共和党中期大会上，佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·保利娜·卢纳利用登台时间表示，“国会不应该利用我们每天为美国人民工作而获得的情报来谋取私利。”在竞选活动中，关键战场选区的共和党人同样利用了公众对民选官员股票交易的不满情绪。
At last month’s GOP midterm convention in Texas, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., used her time on the stage to argue that “Congress should not use the sensitive information we receive on a daily basis working for the American people for private gain.”On the campaign trail, Republicans in key battleground districts have likewise leaned into the public frustration with stock trading by elected officials.
佛罗里达州的共和党国会候选人迈克·贝尔特兰和斯科特·辛格，以及蒙大拿州的亚伦·弗林特，均呼吁禁止这种做法。爱荷华州的乔·米切尔则将在禁止企业政治行动委员会资金和实行任期限制列为其政策目标之一。
Republican congressional candidates Mike Beltran and Scott Singer in Florida and Aaron Flint in Montana have all called for banning the practice. Joe Mitchell in Iowa lists banning corporate PAC money and term limits among his policy goals.
在国会山，许多处于摇摆选区的共和党现任议员——包括宾夕法尼亚州的斯科特·佩里、爱荷华州的扎克·纳恩、纽约州的迈克·劳勒和弗吉尼亚州的詹·基甘斯——均已签署法案，禁止国会成员买卖个股。
On Capitol Hill, many Republican incumbents in swing seats — including Reps. Scott Perry in Pennsylvania, Zach Nunn in Iowa, Mike Lawler in New York and Jen Kiggans in Virginia — have signed on to legislation to block members of Congress from buying and selling individual stocks.
7月，由共和党主导的众议院以所有共和党议员及部分民主党议员的支持，通过了一项限制国会成员股票交易的法案。就在上周，参议院共和党人试图在该法案在议员们离开华盛顿前往竞选前推动其通过。
In July, the GOP-led House passed — with universal Republican and some Democratic support — a bill to limit stock trading by members of Congress. And just last week, Senate Republicans tried to advance the bill before lawmakers left Washington for the campaign trail.
但参议院民主党人阻止了该法案，纽约州民主党参议员、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默称该法案“软弱无力”，因为它仍然允许国会成员保留并出售他们已持有的股票。
Senate Democrats blocked it, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., labeling it “feeble” because it would still allow members of Congress to keep and sell stocks they already own.