It turns out that Congress can compromise after all.

At the last moment, House and Senate negotiators wheeled and dealed their way to a highway agreement in which no one gets everything and everyone gets something.

The bill still is not certain. Senators and Congressmen are reviewing the negotiators’ agreement and have until Saturday midnight to sign off on it. But there is considerable pressure to get the thing done so members can tell their constituents they have signed off on a jobs bill.

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