The bill, widely expected to consume two weeks of work, is a complicated compromise that has critics on the left and the right.
In the complicated compromise that produced the legislation, Republicans insisted on many provisions intended to inject market forces and more competition into Medicare, which they argue will ultimately lead to better, more cost-effective care.
"Either this gets a technological fix," Mr. Epstein said, "and someone replicates the same effect in non-human embryonic stem cells, or we will see what are essentially very complicated compromises working their way through the courts".
Harry S. Truman's swift recognition of Israel has complicated that compromise ever since, and Mr. Bush has been at pains for months to prove he is serious about making peace in the region.
Home movies, diary readings and her children (including Isabella Rossellini) cast new light on an icon of both Hollywood and European cinema, whose scandalous modernity and melancholia complicated and compromised her stellar talent.
Marine protected area (MPA) networks have been proposed as a principal method for conserving biological diversity, yet patterns of diversity may ultimately complicate or compromise the development of such networks.
The debate is more measured, balance between the interests of 27 member states is often complicated to achieve, compromise is not a dirty word in the way it is in Westminster, and within this environment very different politicians can prosper.
The cause of death was interpreted to be respiratory compromise complicated by anorexia and probably dehydration as well.
Even some supporters conceded that the highly complicated negotiations forced compromises that left significant loopholes.
Saddam would complain that Unscom was being used as a cover for American and Israeli espionage operations, and it was true that the relationships between inspectors and the intelligence agencies they relied upon were complicated and sometimes compromised.
Tony Soprano, the argument goes, proved that viewers would watch "unhappy, morally compromised, complicated, deeply human" characters and, TV being what it is, spawned a legion of such characters, from Nate Fischer and Vic Mackey to ultimate antihero, Walter White from Breaking Bad.
