美國參議院批准趙小蘭任美國運輸部長

Elaine Chao, a former top U.S. labor official, was sworn in on Tuesday to lead the U.S. Transportation Department, which overseas aviation, vehicle, train and pipeline safety. Chao, a former U.S. labor secretary and deputy transportation secretary, took office hours after the U.S. Senate voted 93 to 6 to confirm her.

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美國前勞工部長趙小蘭星期二宣誓就任美國運輸部長，負責空運，車輛，火車和輸油管道的安全。趙小蘭曾任勞工部長和運輸部副部長，美國國會參議院以93票支持6票反對的結果批准了她的提名幾小時後，趙小蘭宣誓就職。

She will be a key player in President Donald Trump's Cabinet if his administration pushes ahead with a major infrastructure spending program.

趙小蘭將在川普總統新建和重振美國基礎設施的計劃中發揮重大作用。

The Transportation Department has a $75 billion annual budget and about 60,000 employees. It includes the Federal Aviation Administration, which handles air traffic control.

美國運輸部年度預算750億美元，有大約6萬名僱員，負責空管的聯邦航空管理局也屬於運輸部。

Chao is the wife of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the first Asian-American woman to hold a Cabinet position.

趙小蘭的丈夫是現任參議院多數黨領袖米奇·麥康奈爾，她本人是第一位擔任部長級官員的亞裔女性。

At her confirmation hearing this month, Chao declined to take positions on a number of issues, including whether air traffic control jobs should be privatized, concerns over the safety of shipments of crude oil by rail, foreign airlines' push to move into the U.S. market and regulation of developing technologies.

在本月舉行的提名聽證會上，趙小蘭在一些重要問題上沒有表明立場，包括空管是否應該私有化，原油通過鐵路運輸的安全隱患，外國航空公司進軍美國市場的努力，以及對正在開發的新技術的管理。