In the Senate, the making of a compromise in the midst of meltdown was a victory for the dogged efforts of a few.
As the political representatives have never seemed capable of making a tough compromise deal, why not bring in the tough, smooth, intelligent former IBMCEO, who completely restructured IBM and set it off on over 20 straight quarters of increased earnings?
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Enzi's bill on Association Health Plans hit the Senate floor in May, Snowe worked on a number of compromise amendments, including making more medical benefits mandatory, to address Democratic concerns.
But there's a trap in the making: In the name of compromise, Labor's allies may drop card check, demanding in return provisions that could achieve most of Big Labor's expansionary goals.
Despite the Liberal Democrats' enthusiasm for proportional electoral systems, which tend to produce compromise and coalition government, the Lib Dems are making a lot of uncompromising noise about their election manifesto pledge to abolish tuition fees.
The figure McCain announced was a compromise between those who believe such a limit is necessary for making a national policy work and those who say the industry should get no such protection.
But a recently published survey of the various conflicting engineering studies comes up with a plausible compromise estimate: Every unit of energy that goes into making ethanol from corn produces ethanol that yields 1.27 units of energy.
While many of her fans were excited to hear that she would be making a new album, there was concern that a traditional record deal might result in an artistic compromise.
The Republican-backed bill expanding Indiana's program is awaiting action in the state Senate, where there have been concerns about its cost and whether the Legislature should start making exceptions to the 2011 compromise that then-Gov. Mitch Daniels touted as giving public schools a chance to win over students and parents.
But I think the point that he is making is a broader one, which is that as we saw in the CR debate for fiscal year 2011 that bipartisan compromise has to come -- can come, will come -- when each side is willing to take a sober, serious, constructive approach and also be willing to move off of his or her starting position.
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