Administration officials who have reviewed drafts of the legislation said that it substantially adopts Mr. Obama's proposal.
But the Nassau-Suffolk CountheSchool Boards Associnitialopposedraftsinitial drafts of the legislation, arguing that they overstepped the counties' authority to impose legislation on school districts and put too much burden and liability on the schools.
But the lawmakers bowed to pressure from powerful moderates within President Robert Mugabe's own political party and eliminated some of the harshest elements from earlier drafts of the legislation.
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators has largely agreed on a broad immigration bill that would require tough border measures to be in place before illegal immigrants could take the first steps to become American citizens, according to several people familiar with drafts of the legislation.
Under current drafts of the legislation, fines would run as high as 100 million euros, ($137 million) or 5 percent of a company's global annual revenue, whichever is higher, rather than a cap of 2 percent, which was the figure proposed by Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, who wrote the original draft of the legislation.
Don Stewart, a spokesman for the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, emphasized that "this is guidance, not a ruling". The parliamentarian "provided guidance," and that guidance will help inform subsequent drafts of the legislation, he said, suggesting that the bill could be revised to answer her questions.
Party leaders, including the committee chairmen who led the drafting of the legislation, will negotiate to resolve the various differences between the two bills.
Mr. Albrecht said he would like a final draft of the legislation to be approved by the spring and to go into effect two years later.
While a draft of the legislation does not stipulate a maximum size for banks, it requires financial firms with more than $400 billion of assets to hold additional capital.
