Mr. Grassley, the lead Republican negotiator for the Senate, said he was distressed that House Republicans were refusing to negotiate provisions that would increase Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals in rural areas, including parts of Iowa.
"Many sponsors and tenant associations," he said, "negotiated provisions like parking space allocation as part of the initial conversion".
But the Swiss Re executive testified that he had been negotiating provisions of the Wilprop policy for weeks and was awaiting detailed information about various policy limitations when he received the e-mail message.
The Republicans, who just weeks ago lambasted the Democrats for negotiating provisions of the health care legislation behind closed doors, adopted an opposite approach and demanded that the Democrats agree to negotiate major changes to the bill before they would consider opening the regular process of floor debate and amendments.
The raid was not the first violent episode involving American forces to provoke a public dispute since the security agreement took effect in January, but it quickly became the most serious test so far of the agreement's carefully negotiated provisions.
VCs really need to move to a deal structure that doesn't burn up so much lawyer time negotiating provisions that are almost never used.
Throughout Ohio, teachers unions have negotiated provisions to reduce costs; improve teachers' skills throughout their careers as well as more effectively evaluate them; and ensure that our students have safe schools and the subjects they need, such as art, music and physical education.
"Many purchasers' lawyers try to negotiate a provision that reverses that," he said.
Further illustrating the strength of the credit markets, Express Scripts did not negotiate a provision in the acquisition agreement to terminate the deal if its financing fails.
