And Mr. Reid suggested Tuesday that there appeared to be little chance of finding consensus.
Far from finding consensus, the court found that the evidence in support is "not compelling".
I wonder which grim historical milestones they considered and rejected before finding consensus on that one.
That entailed finding consensus among supporting nations about how military assistance should be channeled to the rebels.
The summit meetings are exercises in finding consensus among disparate countries whose leaders' eyes are fixed on domestic voters, not on some vague European public.
With Republicans pushing for more domestic oil and gas production and many Democrats focusing on alternative energy sources, finding consensus will not be easy, Congressional leaders acknowledge.
In her manner and her words, Marianne Birthler seems far more interested in finding consensus than in picking a fight with Helmut Kohl, the former chancellor of Germany.
As with all political bodies, the process of finding consensus on how to improve the output of the council will inevitably be messy.
Of course, this means finding consensus within each party is easier than when Democratic senators ranged from, say, James O. Eastland of Mississippi to Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
Republicans said the Democratic strategy showed the party was more interested in trying to take political advantage of public unease with the war than it was in finding consensus solutions.
The headline and article said that Mrs. Clinton had criticized Democrats on Saturday for "wasting time" by dealing with issues that helped Republicans turn out voters rather than finding consensus on mainstream subjects.
