Ms. Collins, however, is calling for an open debate on the issue and for allowing committee members to offer amendments to the bill.
They are close to an agreement that will allow committee members and some assistants to view the privileged testimony gathered in the investigation, he said.
To get a Senate with 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats organized so it could consider any legislation, he had to agree to allow committee memberships to be divided equally, though Republicans served as chairmen.
"The committee didn't feel it was appropriate to allow committee resources to be spent on non-committee business," he said.
The web prototype was also designed to allow committee members to enter weights, scores and impacts for each criterion for online appraisal of the selected medicine.
He would not allow committees to stop bills — like the immigration and airport pat-down measures — that have broad support.
In response to criticism of the seniority transfer system, the union has allowed about 200 of the city's 1,100 schools to exempt themselves and instead allow committees of teachers, administrators and parents to select candidates for openings.
"Allowing committees of jurisdiction their proper jurisdiction is the right thing to do," said David Dreier, a Californian who was one of the few Republicans to speak in defense of his party's stance.
The reprieve for the two schools came after nearly four months of upheaval about the plan to close and replace 33 schools using a provision in the teachers' contract that would allow committees to vet and remove many of the instructors.
Sanders invoked an arcane procedural maneuver, objecting to a rule that allows committees to meet during legislative sessions.
Jason Grumet, the head of the Bipartisan Policy Center, suggested allowing committees to deliberate in private so cooperative deals can't be killed early by national partisan outrage.
