The House speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, has offered a tentative endorsement of provisions in the Senate measure, while Mr. Bush signaled he was prepared to sign any bill that landed on his desk.
However, Mr. Hastert also appeared today to offer a tentative endorsement of other provisions in the overall Senate bill, saying that the Senate has "acted responsibly so far".
As a result, Mr. Grinstein, who has been in place since January, potentially passes his first significant test by reaching the tentative deal, which includes provisions that the pilots long resisted as far too harsh.
But the tentative agreement includes two problematic provisions related to health care reform.
The tentative settlement includes some novel provisions, like partial financing by private foundations, but experts were divided about how profoundly they would change the district's school system.
Among the provisions of the tentative agreement was increasing the residuals paid by the Fox Television Network, which had a 50percentt discount on the residuals paid by major networks.
Those include how to apply the tentative agreement's job security provisions to employees in the state's judicial and higher education sectors, who don't belong to the executive branch of government headed by the governor.
