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Over the last month, regulators scrambled to draft a compromise.

With the Republican-dominated Legislature preparing to leave town on Friday, time has run out to draft a compromise bill between the House and Senate that would expand Medicaid with the help of billions of federal dollars.

Mr. Rockefeller tried to draft a compromise with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, that offered to cut $70 million from the rural airport program — several times more than the amount that the Republican bill sought to cut.

Aides to Mr. Nelson said he was studying a proposal on abortion that he received on Wednesday from Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, who had been asked by Democratic leaders to try to draft a compromise.

Lindsey Graham, the Republican who is working closely with Democrats to draft a compromise cap and trade bill, is also on board with a greater role for nuclear power.

The most likely path to passing major legislation appears to be through the Senate, where Mr. Carper, who is chairman of the committee responsible for the Post Office, and Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican who has introduced a different bill, are working together to draft a compromise that could pass with bipartisan support.

-Groups A and B divide into pairs to meet in small groups (of four) with pairs from Group C and D ROUND THREE Task: Students return to their original groups (A-D) to draft a statement of compromise that clarifies the original Senate agreement and/or modifies it.

He urged the General Assembly to push for federal adoption of the Crittenden Compromise and advocated calling a border states convention which would draft a compromise proposal and submit it to the Northern and Southern states for adoption.

On 9 July, the Dutch Ambassador suggested that Britain draft a compromise.

"That is not a way to run a government," said Mr. Obama, who said he was willing to consider a short extension if Congress needed time to draft an agreed-upon compromise.

Sunnis in Iraq Accept Constitution Compromise Iraqi political leaders broke weeks of deadlock on Thursday, with Sunni Arabs accepting a compromise offer to increase their representation on the Shiite-led parliamentary committee that is to draft a constitution.