"It's a very hard compromise for people, but we recognize, I think a majority of us, the alternative is calamitous," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif ., summing up the thinking of many of her colleagues after BiD-Calif .hisumming to them.
The meeting was conceived and executed not to achieve a breakthrough, but to restart an American-brokered process of communication and hard compromise.
"It was a hard-fought compromise," he said.
The three-tier legalization system, a hard-fought compromise, was critical for moderate Republican support for the original bill.
"But I don't think anyone wants more political upheaval or early elections, and my prediction is there will be a hard-fought compromise".
A crisis appeared to be averted, however, when a hard-wrought compromise deal was signed by the government and most opposition groups on December 31.
But the Republican senators who drafted the proposal said it represented a hard-wrung compromise with the White House, which strongly opposed any Congressional interference in the eavesdropping program.
The bill's sponsor, Representative Brandon Phelps, a Harrisburg Democrat, said that the bill was the result of a hard-won compromise and that he would most likely file a motion to override any changes.
An 89-to-28 89-to-28 89-to-28, on the last day before lawmakers adjourned their spring session, sealed a hard-fought compromise worked out after a federal appeals court ordered in December that Illinois drop its ban by June 9.
The city's proposal is a hard-fought compromise for a six-acre slice of Manhattan that has been a trigger point since nearly 2,000 residents were displaced and most of their homes bulldozed in 1967.
Already, the mulish behavior of Congressional Republicans has led to the creation of the sequester, blocked action on economic growth and climate change, prevented reasonable checks on gun purchases and threatens to blow up a hard-fought compromise on immigration.
