Democratic leaders and the bipartisan coalition that brought the bill this far need to stand firm to protect its carefully drawn compromises and to ensure that its irreplaceable core — the citizenship path — survives.
On certain hard-fought issues like energy or a Medicare prescription drug benefit, Mr. Daschle bypassed committees that might have drawn up compromise bills and instead brought Democratic measures directly to the floor.
Mr Obama is attempting to draw a compromise between the two sides by endorsing what he calls an "extraordinarily fair" package that would see roughly $3 trillion in cuts, combined with a tax increase worth just under $1 trillion.
As Borough President, Mrs. Motley had drawn up a compromise that brought the Morningside Urban Renewal Project plans out of stalemate & helped halt the proposed elevated expressway across Broome St.
Under a compromise drawn up by State Attorney General Mark L. Shurtleff, delegates to the convention, to be held tomorrow in Sandy, outside Salt Lake City, will be asked to keep their weapons in storage lockers while Mr. Cheney speaks.
And when he tried, strenuously and politely, to persuade them to revive his stalled immigration-reform plan, they gave him more peanuts.The bill, a compromise drawn up by a small group of liberal and conservative senators, looked close to death last week when its supporters came 15 votes short of the 60 votes (out of 100) they needed to end debate and bring it to a vote.
The luck-of-the-draw option was inserted in the 1970 constitution because the framers believed it would force compromise.
That fundamental compromise has drawn fire from the left and the right.
Mr. Obama's vision for NASA called for investing $16 billion over five years for space technologies, but the compromise blueprint drawn up by Congress shifts most of the money to a heavy-lift rocket.
Writers were exposed to an indifferent world; the closure of research institutes left academics jobless; dissidents were drawn into the bloodthirsty compromise of parliamentary politics; Russia became embroiled in a futile and murderous war in Chechnya.
