But, despite foreign creditors’ threats, the federal government did not come to the rescue. The bailout request did not succeed because it could not muster a simple majority of the states (represented by the Senate) and the population (represented by the House of Representatives) under the normal decision-making procedure (the “Community method,” in European Union jargon).
但是，尽管有外国债权人的威胁，联邦政府仍拒绝出手援助。援助要求没有成功，因为根据常规决策程序（用欧盟的话说，叫“共同体方法”），这需要州（由参议院代表）和人口（由众议院代表）简单多数的批准，而援助要求没有获得简单多数。