He took particular pleasure in finding common ground between opposing languages and techniques.
"We oppose language calling Israel racist just as much as Washington does," one senior German official said on Friday.
And despite promises to oppose language in the Hill-Burton hospital construction law validating "separate but equal" facilities, the A.M.A.'s response was desultory at best.
The United States and the European Union have opposed language that criticizes the subsidies that protect their farmers and businesses from foreign competition.
Mr. Nelson, a centrist, has opposed language in the bill regarding insurance coverage for abortions, which he said is not tough enough.
After that vote, the commission deadlocked 3 to 3 on whether to define the "promote, support, attack, oppose" language using the same words that appear in the statute.
Countries like the United States, Germany and Japan, whose Finance Ministry owns 67percentt of a tobacco company, have opposed language in the treaty that would mandate financing for this purpose.
The Sunni leaders adamantly oppose language in the constitution that could allow the Shiites to create a vast autonomous region in the oil-rich southern part of the country.
The Bush administration also opposed language in the bill that would grant exemptions to the White House's "competitive outsourcing" initiative, an effort to allow the private sector to compete for certain federal jobs.
The Assembly also opposes language in the Senate bill that says mammograms will be provided for some women only when "medically appropriate" and wants all plans, even those paid for by religious employers, to cover contraceptives if they are used for medical reasons.
They also opposed language added late Wednesday by Republicans that would prevent the federal government from revoking funds to North Carolina over its controversial law affecting transgender people going to the bathroom.
