Favors are exchanged – some routine political horse-trading, others more venal.
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National egos and power politics will always require some horse-trading.
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Those votes were widely reported to have entailed some horse trading.
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Much will depend on how the coalition horse-trading plays out.
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If Dake wants to succeed, a little horse-trading is essential.
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At its core, this is all political horse trading with bloody consequences.
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He predicts more of this, though with more horse-trading and uncertainty.
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But after the horse-trading had finished, it emerged with political power.
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That will involve horse-trading between the main parties and smaller partners.
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Critics say that it should now be readier for political horse-trading.
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Other types of horse-trading can also come into play, experts say.
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In the end, though, the job was part of the horse-trading.
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Still, forming a government is expected to take weeks of horse trading.
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Analysts expect a "political horse trading" process that will influence Draghi's succession.
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A new book tells of political horse-trading at the Supreme Court.
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The line-up has been largely settled during months of secretive horse-trading.
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Final bill, reflecting any more last-minute horse-trading likely released on Wednesday.
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Mr Yatseniuk's offer of resignation was followed by dissension and backroom horse-trading.
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Each member state sends one delegate, with portfolios carved up through horse-trading.
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But the horse-trading will be just as venal as 100 years ago.
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This horse trading and tough calculations forced leaders to come to a consensus.
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Far from a victory, the new bill amounts to horse-trading in human rights.
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After Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party lost its majority, horse-trading will follow.
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The best scenario could be one with horse trading on who gets what properties.
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Multilateral enforcement is often spoiled by international horse-trading over sanctions behind closed doors.
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Her influence comes in deciding, after elaborate horse trading, which portfolio goes to whom.
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XIAN, China (Reuters) - Never let it be said diplomacy amounts to more than horse-trading.
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His successor will be chosen after much horse-trading between the 19 euro-zone members.
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His political horse-trading had such a wide scope, it's breathtaking even by today's standards.
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And a lot of this horse trading, like the millionaires&apos tax and so forth.
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Cooper and the GOP are horse-trading with the basic human rights of their constituents.
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Abadi is regarded as the likely winner in this horse trading, although that isn't certain.
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In the behind-the-door horse trading, skittish members need to be wooed and won.
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And I don't mean the latest horse-trading over Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit legislation.
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Neither a flurry of court decisions nor horse-trading in Congress has settled the issue.
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That opens the path for all kinds of bargaining and horse-trading among political factions.
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If there are to be compromises and horse-trading, they may not be likely soon.
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And Trump is showing he's quite open to horse-trading, if that's what it takes.
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But the process was flawed and unseemly, full of political horse-trading, as Biskupic describes.
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Fortunately, Pompeo's bill was rendered irrelevant by last-minute horse trading over the omnibus spending bill.
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I've worked at other funds before, and it seems like it becomes more of horse trading.
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Next week's meeting seems set to be conducted purely on the basis of political horse trading.
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The government formation process from here will therefore be marked by horse-trading and backdoor discussions.
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Guedes said on Monday there must be no horse-trading for votes, as Bolsonaro has insisted.
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If her own pressure campaigns and horse-trading did not work, she would call in outsiders.
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And given the horse-trading between Europe and America, the IMF race will not be entirely fair.
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Let's get into the real horse-trading that happens when it comes to managing your company's website.
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For example, presidents of the European Union are not elected: they are appointed after political horse-trading.
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At a horse-trading fair, the finest mare is named Lady Di, and her stallions are handpicked.
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"You can only imagine the kind of horse trading that's going on in that committee," he said.
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He cultivated an image as a crude but honest candidate and vowed to reject traditional horse-trading.
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The horse-trading that seems to have led Biden to reverse himself on bankruptcy doesn't change that.
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On Wednesday, city investigators revealed a major reason for the delay: "political horse-trading" by City Hall.
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This means the various alliances must engage in horse trading and coalition building to form a government.
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But, however the horse trading goes, the Netherlands looks set to form a staunchly pro-European government.
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"Trump's 'far better trade deal' linkage to North Korea is amateurish, illogical horse trading, at best," Zimmerman said.
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Margaret Thatcher, a member of his cabinet, later reflected that the "horse-trading was making us look ridiculous".
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Nonetheless, it is an opening round in what is expected to be months of horse trading on taxes.
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Congressmen may attempt horse-trading: children's health insurance in exchange for unfettered surveillance; Obamacare funds for military spending.
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In reality, new alignments in the next EU legislature will depend heavily on horse-trading and switching loyalties.
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That means there is no parliamentary maneuver for him to make, or horse-trading for him to conduct.
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And the horse trading that spared him from prosecution last year also turned him into a vilified figured.
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Some horse-trading is inevitable, and it took place in both 2004 and 2008, in very different ways.
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Only after all of the measurable attributes are spelled out can the horse-trading between those attributes begin.
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New party alignments in the next EU legislature will depend heavily on horse-trading after next year's elections.
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How will you balance the need for horse-trading in the Capitol with the purity of your plan?
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The vote will likely be followed by a period of intense political horse-trading to form a coalition.
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"We think that the idea of doing horse trading with this administration is not worth it," Fallon said.
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But the general principles of how a convention operated, and that horse trading was needed, were well accepted.
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Britain's trade negotiations with the EU have yet to formally start and horse-trading is common in such talks.
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It's imagined as a way to circumvent the ugly process of horse-trading that takes place in actual legislatures.
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After many rounds of voting, debating, and horse trading, we finally settled on a definitive, inarguable, and absolute ranking.
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Both sides say the trickiest elements will be left for a final bout of horse-trading in the autumn.
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She has barely tried to hide her disdain for Congress—or her lack of interest in political horse-trading.
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It was the sort of national horse-trading and jockeying for influence that has pervaded a number of decisions.
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Joining with two such diverse parties will take some complex horse trading, and the resulting team could prove unstable.
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What they understood was that, if you embraced old-fashioned dealing, trading, horse-trading, bipartisan achievement, people feel better.
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However, given the tough political horse-trading that lies ahead, Merkel might not manage to keep her close ally.
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The grassroots has the potential to overcome anything that horse trading can do to salvage such a deeply flawed bill.
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But this level has never been reached in the horse trading that takes place during the annual federal budget negotiations.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio engaged in "political horse trading," holding back a report on the ultra-Orthodox schools, investigators found.
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Nor will I pretend that a global superpower can do the business of horse-trading only with saints and scholars.
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Horse-trading in Congress delayed last year's budget approval by four months, weighing down the Southeast Asian nation's economic growth.
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Mayoral control, which ensures accountability to the voters, deserves acceptance as a bedrock principle, untrammeled by standard Albany horse-trading.
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But the horse-trading has received intense scrutiny in recent months as demands on the agency's cash flow have grown.
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Originally Roma pursued professions, which meant they weren't reliant on the state, like horse trading, scrap trading, or training animals.
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Such pressure tactics are common in legislative horse trading, but the family separations are now widely viewed as beyond the pale.
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The conventions involved significant horse-trading and a well-respected and known name would have the ability to unify the party.
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The former Army captain is running on an anti-corruption platform vowing to end the political horse trading of Brazilian politics.
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Bolsonaro, a longtime fringe Congressman, won the top office by criticizing the corruption and extensive horse-trading of Brazilian coalition politics.
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Horse-trading between Italy and international bodies such as the European Union and the International Monetary Fund continued over the weekend.
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And when political horse trading is involved, all too often, it is our clients' rights that are the first to go.
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The levers – the mechanism used to make trade gradually freer – consisted of elaborate horse-trading negotiations ("rounds") resulting in tariff reductions.
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But France, in this horse-trading context, may still end up hosting the first final in the new format next year.
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But horse trading to get recalcitrant Indian states on board has left Asia's third-largest economy with a complex tax structure.
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The process, which analysts have compared to horse trading or a game of musical chairs, will play out over the coming weeks.
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The country now faces weeks of uncertainty as both blocs engage in frantic horse-trading to try to form the next government.
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As the euro zone's leaders gear up for the horse-trading, they would do well to consider the impact on the markets.
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In theory, "horse-trading", as the Indian press politely terms efforts to build a legislative majority by hook or crook, is illegal.
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Nominations for the various European commissioners typically involve large amounts of horse-trading and power playing for portfolios between the Member States.
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"The horse-trading is on," said Jelta Wong, who was among nine members of parliament to desert the government's ranks on Friday.
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Republicans portrayed what we would normally call legislative horse-trading as unheard-of corruption, and gave each individual deal its own name.
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"Game of Thrones," like the source books by George R. R. Martin, has a bias toward its horse-trading Tyrions and Littlefingers.
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This disjunction encouraged Europe's bureaucrats to understand their job in extravagantly idealistic terms, even when it involved the grubbiest of horse-trading.
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"This horse trading is going to affect the well-being, unity and diversity of the Jewish people," he said in an interview.
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The bloc's national leaders, however, want to hold the process under their control, which sets the scene for much horse-trading this summer.
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Mr Xi's chance, in the coming months of fierce if (to outsiders) invisible horse-trading, is to stuff the Central Committee with allies.
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The politicians' instinct to appoint one of their own will be amplified in Europe by the usual horse-trading among euro-zone members.
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Republican bosses, who would be influential in the horse-trading that would follow, appear increasingly resigned to losing a third consecutive presidential election.
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Clinton's team has repeatedly cast aside accusations that her family foundation had been used for political horse-trading, pointing to its philanthropic agenda.
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Dzu's success suggested an alternative to the politics of cronyism and horse-trading, demonstrating the potential to mobilize popular support through political ideals.
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The nomination process at Italy's state-controlled companies is traditionally the subject of intense political horse trading because of their size and importance.
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Aware of Spaniards' weariness with elections and their leaders' horse-trading, parties are eager to deflect blame if there is a new election.
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More probably, Mr Macron will have to preside over a minority government, or form a coalition, dragging him and his party into horse-trading.
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Mr Prayuth's career in the army and as a coup leader has not given him a lot of experience of horse-trading with politicians.
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The temptation will be to make the central-bank position part of the horse-trading, picking the new chief on the basis of nationality.
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Government watchdog groups saw the state's move as an intrusion that would subject housing applications to horse trading among the governor and legislative leaders.
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Trump administration officials shied away from making commitments while in Beijing over market access, the sort of horse-trading that marked previous presidential visits.
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Weeks more horse-trading could ensue, with no guarantee Netanyahu will succeed after he tried and failed twice last year, in April and September.
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Then Mr Sánchez threw himself into the horse-trading over EU jobs, securing the post of foreign-relations supremo for Josep Borrell, his foreign minister.
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He argued that the art of political horse-trading, far from being shabby, lets people of different beliefs live together in a peaceful, thriving society.
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In the name of sober adult legislative horse-trading, they've only managed to carry off the sober pursuit of silly non-solutions to real problems.
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There is much tax bill amending and horse trading still to come, so it is far too early to take our eyes off the ball.
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Instead, there has seemed to be a return to business-as-usual horse-trading and compromise among the tightly knit Ukrainian oligarchic and business elite.
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But this year, for financial reasons at some teams, contractual complications at others and a "wait and see" approach at others, the horse-trading continues.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - After much unedifying horse-trading, European leaders have finally agreed on who will head the commission, central bank and other top roles.
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Presenting a so-called negotiating box, which will form the basis of intense horse-trading between 27 EU national leaders at a summit on Feb.
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If the horse-trading over the current tax plan shows us anything, it's that Congress can get things done if there is enough political will.
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Vajiralongkorn has asked for revisions to a junta-drafted constitution that was approved by referendum last year; a form of horse-trading may be underway.
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The development suggests that electoral horse-trading might be about to begin in the battle to replace Sepp Blatter as head of football's world governing body.
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HENNINGER: I don&apost think we&aposre going to see too many changes in 401(k)s, that&aposs sort of horse trading before this begins.
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Pelosi had spent much of the week wrangling her caucus, horse-trading with members across the ideological spectrum in an attempt to keep them in line.
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It's one thing for lawmakers to engage in a little horse-trading across the aisle to secure funding for a pet issue or pass a budget.
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By maintaining broad views on issues, standing parties allow horse trading so that policy can be made in countries where the citizens hold wildly diverging views.
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He promised to clean up politics by ending the horse-trading with Congress practiced by past presidents to be able to govern Latin America's largest country.
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Reopen the government, start tweeting about something else, let congressional appropriators do their boring horse-trading, and they will find some money for some steel slats.
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That could mean weeks of horse-trading, with no guarantee that Netanyahu will succeed after he tried and failed twice last year, in April and September.
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They fear that immigration horse-trading could see their future in the United States exchanged for a border wall or more stringent deportation policy for others.
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Until now the job, held by Dr. Margaret Chan since 21999, has been filled after quiet horse-trading among major nations, sometimes involving accusations of bribery.
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But European leaders do not want Britain to hold the bloc hostage by horse trading on the terms of an exit before it commits to leave.
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The tussle over the future location of nearly 900-strong European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to form part of complex political horse-trading around Brexit.
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Fellow Socialist EU leaders tasked Sanchez in May to lead their camp in intense EU horse-trading to pick five names for the top EU positions.
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The horse-trading will last well into the autumn, and the EU's new five-year political cycle will probably not get properly under way until early 2020.
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He has not lived up to all the business-friendly promises he made before entering office, but investors would still prefer stability over unpredictable parliamentary horse-trading.
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Horse-trading between Republicans and Democrats seeking to avoid a government shutdown is intensifying, with ObamaCare subsidies and increased funding for the Pentagon both on the table.
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He assured investors he has fulfilled campaign promises to form a cabinet without engaging in the political horse-trading that led to rampant corruption in the past.
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In an interview, Ms. Rousseff brushed off suggestions that her disdain for retail politics and the horse trading required to pass legislation had contributed to her woes.
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A source familiar with the state of negotiations in Vienna told CNBC that OPEC members are in the process of horse trading ahead of the official decision.
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It wasn't just that overall tariffs were high; who got how much tariff protection was determined through a free-for-all of horse-trading among special interests.
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But the horse trading over mayoral control increasingly rankled the Democratic-controlled Assembly and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was forced to argue for one-year extensions.
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"Winning passage of legislation, whatever its details, will require a mix of compromise and cajoling, horse-trading and arm-twisting, favor-granting and trust-building," he wrote.
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That will necessitate days and weeks of back-room haggling and horse trading to come up with a coalition government that can win confidence votes in Parliament.
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Still, the decision on the future location of the EBA and EMA will ultimately come down to horse-trading between European politicians and other cities are also keen.
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These machinations weren't simply a matter of horse-trading, but reflect the fundamental nature of the Democrats as a heterogeneous party held together by a belief in government.
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The legislation is attached to the Republican tax reform plan, and after months of horse-trading, Republicans have secured the votes in the Senate to pass the bill.
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He spent time in Dubai and had been heavily involved in the horse trading that is part of the coalition building ahead of Afghanistan's presidential elections next year.
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He does not have a track record of building coalitions, and has said he will not partake in the traditional horse-trading required to pass legislation in Brazil.
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That will likely lead to last-minute horse-trading among countries — with the threat of a global trade war in early 2021 keeping minds focused on the task.
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It seems likely that the race will not be settled on the first ballot, and everyone I spoke to said that there was surely horse trading to come.
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These divisions, they suggest, do not lend themselves to negotiation and compromise as readily as differences over economics, where horse-trading and difference-splitting are more feasible solutions.
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Behind the scenes, partisans from both factions busied themselves with intrigue, hedging and horse-trading, jostling for position in an environment where allegations and back-stabbing ran rampant.
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Koenig's nomination is coinciding with decisions on other top economic jobs in the euro zone, which entail fierce behind-the-scenes horse-trading among the bloc's 19 member states.
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After helping secure 2015's historic Paris Climate Conference agreement with some last-minute behind-the-scenes horse-trading, we see Gore among the crowd of celebrating world leaders.
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Intense bickering and horse trading have been a hallmark of every power transition in the history of the party and pundits expect the next one to be no exception.
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Analysts say Abbassi, a party loyalist, is unlikely to object to a short-lived stint in the top job, with this kind of horse-trading common in Pakistani politics.
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But the counterintuitive arithmetic of legislative horse-trading means that declaring the bill dead likely requires stiff opposition from twice the number of GOP senators needed to kill it.
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The Democratic Party platform of 21625 that emerged from its convention was aggressively progressive, and every word contained in it was the result of intense debate and horse-trading.
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"It may actually take the spotlight off of Congress as they do their wheeling and dealing and horse-trading to actually make that happen," said GOP strategist Ford O'Connell.
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Analysts have said the race is too close to call, but over the weekend, amid horse-trading and private negotiations, there were indications that Mr. Ramaphosa was pulling ahead.
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It is the kind of quiet deal-making for which Ms. Pelosi is legendary on Capitol Hill, where such horse trading is behind virtually every major piece of legislation.
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And the way projects are given priority has less to do with real regional planning or economic good sense than with the caprices of government horse-trading and funding.
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Trump would never have made it through the convention horse-trading that used to drive nominations; Moore would never have survived a process that required support from party officials.
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Then, whether by backroom dealing, horse trading, arm twisting, or simple persuasion, they have to meld the separate House-passed and Senate-passed versions of the bill into one.
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And if Republicans try to use either bill as source of leverage, or a vehicle for horse trading, they will either have to reciprocate or shut down their own government.
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Donald Trump would never have made it through the convention horse-trading that used to drive nominations; he would never have survived a process that required support from party officials.
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The boasting and brashness, the cutting slurs ("nasty woman"), the raw ego -- well, they only signaled that Trump wouldn't compromise and blink once the horse-trading of Washington politics started.
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Each has his supporters, and his all-too-human — which is to say, somewhat facile — hidden flaws, turning the election into a marathon of negotiating, horse trading and odds making.
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I would not support a single omnibus package, since it tends to sacrifice good lawmaking for the sake of political horse trading, comprehensiveness and a "we'll fix it later" mentality.
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Even without the political horse-trading, the politics surrounding the de Blasio administration's deep reluctance to bring the force of law to bear on New York's Orthodox communities is clear.
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"Faso played that whole thing like an idiot, to be frank," said Jim Palmatier, 62, who said he was disappointed to see the congressman horse-trading over a doomed bill.
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After months of political horse trading, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and sister party the Christian Socail Union are ready to form a new coalition with the SPD.
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In an indication of possible horse-trading, Ferber said the commission should also give EU states more time beyond the current July 2016 deadline to write MiFID II into national law.
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Plans to do away with corporate debt subsidies will also face opposition and may well not survive the inevitable negotiations and horse-trading as a tax reform plan moves toward reality.
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Part of the reason is that, by spreading untruth and outrage, corroding voters' judgment and aggravating partisanship, social media erode the conditions for the horse-trading that Crick thought fosters liberty.
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Mr Panetta, a former CIA director as well as defence secretary, White House chief of staff and congressman, worries that generals lack much experience of the horse-trading side of politics.
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"I hope very much that there has been no horse trading between the two bills, given that they are both going to be voted on at the same meeting," he added.
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For weeks a group of central political figures known as the "strategic seven" has engaged in secretive horse-trading at midnight meetings in an effort to forge a new coalition government.
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He has said he will encourage further corruption investigations and end horse-trading between the government and political parties, which has been a major source of back-room deals and patronage.
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The rejection of all seven female candidates spoke to the way the United Nations still operates, critics say — a clubby culture of quiet diplomatic bargaining and horse trading, dominated by men.
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There was always intense horse-trading over the big jobs, but in the past it was often squared by grand bargains between France and Germany and between Christian and Social Democrats.
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It soon became clear to European officials that there was no formalized path to winning exemption, besides aggressive, public push-back and a certain amount of horse-trading behind closed doors.
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Mr. Felder, a lifelong registered Democrat who represents a large Orthodox Jewish population in Brooklyn, has long embodied some of the perplexing horse-trading and politicking that are hallmarks of Albany.
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After months of horse-trading in which Netanyahu and Gantz both failed to win enough support, the outcome, much to the dismay of the jaded Israeli electorate, was Monday's election. Yes.
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Weber is the early frontrunner because his center-right alliance is likely to remain the largest group in Parliament, although horse-trading amongst EU leaders may result in another Commission chief.
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Ian Ziering's willing to do a little horse-trading in his divorce ... he says he'll help out his estranged wife financially for a bit, but then she's gotta get a job.
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There was some horse-trading, we're told, and Rob agreed to double his offer and pay Chyna $20k a month, and she agreed in return to drop her domestic violence allegations.
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Who will take over from Draghi is still part of a wider game of political musical chairs on the European level and subject to the usual horse-trading by national leaders.
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Yet the result, diplomats agree, is utterly unpredictable; months of horse-trading on issues unrelated to healthcare will end up in hours of haggling between secret ballots in Brussels on Monday night.
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That's why its resurrection, and the concomitant horse-trading, should be read first as an effort to reroute right-wing outrage, which is currently directed at the House Republicans, toward the Senate.
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Paradoxically, it may be easier to generate energy for ratification of a packet of reformist constitutional amendments than just one (not least, because that would allow for horse-trading among advocacy groups).
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And while some degree of horse-trading will likely be required to form a government, all other parties have established a cordon sanitaire around Akesson's party, pledging not to work with them.
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But with horse-trading still continuing, the king announced on Saturday afternoon that he had met with the nation's lawmakers and determined that the majority supported Mr. Muhyiddin's candidacy for prime minister.
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That would set off intense horse-trading for the support of smaller parties (the Liberal Democrats, Greens, Scottish National Party and the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru) needed to form a coalition government.
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" For Lawfare, educators Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman wrote that this bribery theory might mean that "the executive branch could come to view routine political compromises and horse-trading as illegal.
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Frenzied horse trading by both camps is taking place not only in their offices and official residences but inside congressional cafes and corridors, and in the glossy eateries of the futuristic capital.
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Austrian officials have said current Austrian National Bank Vice Governor Andreas Ittner is a likely candidate, though they have also said the process will involve much horse-trading between euro zone member states.
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Bolsonaro also promised during his campaign to attack endemic political corruption in part by ending the horse trading with the lawmakers of the 30 parties in Congress to get his desired legislation passed.
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The Pirate Party is unlikely to win an outright majority, but could still gain enough seats to form part of a coalition in the horse-trading that is likely to follow the election.
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It was not quite that the games were an afterthought, but there was certainly a sense that they were an inconvenience, a distraction from the day's main business of haggling and horse trading.
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It would be prudent for investors to protect themselves against the risk of a hung parliament - and the resultant horse trading that would follow - even if it looks highly improbable at the moment.
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It was only recently that China, in the middle of intense horse trading ahead of the Communist Party's national congress this autumn, began to prepare for economic ties with the U.S. entering uncharted waters.
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Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk survived a no confidence vote in parliament but must now look for new allies, a prospect suggesting more horse-trading ahead and even more struggle to pass critical reforms.
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This will involve fierce horse-trading over names to head the European Council, which brings together national leaders, the executive European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Central Bank and the joint diplomatic service.
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It's a morass of red tape and political horse-trading that keeps New York's transit system tethered firmly in the past, while other cities' metro systems and subways get glossier and more high tech.
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Americans who rely on CHIP don't care about political posturing or the horse trading happening in Washington: They just want the program funded to make sure their children can get the care they need.
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If the ABI owned distributor is sold to a friendly buyer that is unlikely to offer rival beer, this horse trading will leave one beer market in worse shape without ABI violating the cap.
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Victory after repeated defeats against Obamacare The success of 11th-hour horse-trading represents a massive win for McConnell, who spent months haunted by the conference's inability to repeal and replace Obamacare in July.
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Sanchez's proposal received only the 130 votes of his own party and Ciudadanos, after an acrimonious debate between leaders that set the tone for a fraught few weeks of further horse-trading between parties.
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Mr. Temer spent much of the year horse-trading with lawmakers, who twice voted to prevent the cases from being referred to the Supreme Court, the only court where senior officials may be prosecuted.
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He followed it with the TV drama "Coalition," once again about political horse trading, and "The Vote," a play that was broadcast live on TV on the night of Britain's general election in 2015.
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Such is the price the organization pays for decades of boiler-room horse-trading, of cash-filled envelopes and thinly veiled nepotism, followed by years of dawn raids and arrest warrants and corruption charges.
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Failure to secure a first-ballot win could result in a "brokered convention," in which candidates and party leaders engage in horse trading to try to gain a majority of delegates on subsequent ballots.
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The inconclusive results are likely to spark weeks of political horse trading as both sides seek the support of other political parties in building a ruling coalition in the 120-member Knesset, Israel's parliament.
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Mr. Brat, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, assailed the deal with Ms. Collins as an example of horse trading that is characteristic of the Washington swamp that he said voters had repudiated.
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It's easy to get swept up in the tactical failures and daily horse-trading and nightly Congressional Budget Office estimates, but the real problem Republicans are facing is that they don't like their own bill.
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They say that Bolsonaro is standing by his core pledge to not engage in the traditional political horse trading in Brasilia that is largely blamed for stunning levels of corruption in the nation's political class.
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Just as Indians habitually vote at local, state and national elections, they also habitually moan at the skulduggery of Indian politics, which can seem a constant parade of horse-trading and bald-faced influence-peddling.
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HORSE-TRADING BEGINS Under O'Neill's watch, production at a big liquefied natural gas (LNG) project has transformed the economy and the country stepped onto the world stage when it hosted an APEC summit in November.
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The ballot will be secret - but that does not rule out political horse-trading, with one report already speculating that France may agree to Frankfurt getting the EBA if the EMA is sited in Lille.
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It is one of several top jobs in the European Union that are up for grabs and the subject of intense horse-trading, with an eye to bringing more women into the most prominent positions.
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The best case for President Trump has always been that he's a successful businessman, who understands the art of dealmaking and could therefore negotiate congressional horse-trading and international negotiations without doing too much damage.
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But the voting and lead candidate rumpus is part of horse-trading among governments to get compatriots or allies into top positions, not just in the Commission and Council but also in the European Central Bank.
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That makes it unlikely that either bloc will win a majority on Sunday, triggering horse-trading with smaller parties favoring Catalan independence - the single most polarizing issues during campaigning - that could easily collapse into fresh elections.
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Trump's announced meeting with the NRA, even if it ultimately leads to nothing, should serve to remind us of how the true art of negotiation and horse trading has been effectively dead in Washington for decades.
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Party politics, geographic representation, policy priorities as well as the candidates' personal profiles all play a role in the choice, which took three summits and three summer months of horse-trading to conclude the previous time.
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"The administration is taking a very pragmatic approach ahead of the October elections ... there will be a lot of political horse trading to approve other measures," said Sacha Tihanyi, senior emerging market strategist with TD Securities.
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The front-runner ahead of Sunday's vote, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, has cried foul at the horse-trading of Brazilian politics, where presidents use patronage and pork barrel politics to form working alliances in Congress.
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Many members of the European Parliament are angry that EU leaders, horse-trading over top posts at a bruising summit last week, brushed aside the so-called "Spitzenkandidaten", the main parliamentary groups' candidates for the job.
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With a plethora of political parties and factions in ever-shifting coalitions, an election in Israel is normally the starting gun for weeks of elaborate and unpredictable horse-trading before a government emerges — or fails to.
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European Union leaders are close to picking Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans to head the European Commission, two diplomats said on Monday, as the bloc's political families dragged out horse-trading between them to an unbroken 19 hours.
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Lofty prospects for Latin America's top economy unraveled earlier this year as Bolsonaro's pension and tax plans crashed with the harsh realities of Brazil's Congress, where horse trading has been intense with his allies and foes alike.
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The Fed regulations and money manipulations have displaced an open market of IPOs by an exclusive game of horse trading among "qualified investors" who get rich and leave Main Street out, and fail to create new jobs.
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Given all we hear about the current climate in Washington, "All the Way" is enough to make you misty for the days when horse-trading in the interest of securing significant achievements was what national politicians did.
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But the formation of a new government is still a long way as parties engage in the traditional horse trading that follows Iraqi elections as they wait for the results to be formally ratified after the recount.
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"I'm against all the dubious horse-trading this government does," said Mr. Maluf, 84, a former São Paulo mayor who faces charges in the United States that he stole more than $11.6 million in a kickback scheme.
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"It's the sort of horse trading you do with all sorts of sources, really," Mr. Cheshire said, hitting on a key to the operation's impact: the way that it played within the bounds of established journalistic norms.
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Some of the moderate Republicans were a bit too meek when they agreed to cap the tax cuts at $1.5 trillion and that has caused some horse trading on tax cuts resulting in some hidden tax hikes.
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It is still pushing to increase oversight of charter schools and decouple teacher evaluations from test scores — a measure that both chambers actually agreed on last year, but that ultimately died amid end-of-session horse-trading.
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More immediately, as chancellor it will fall to Mrs Merkel to make the case for Mr Weber as commission president, as part of the horse-trading among European leaders over top EU jobs that begins after the election.
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Von der Leyen's nomination by EU leaders has infuriated the Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's coalition partners, who feel aggrieved that the leaders ignored the lead candidates from the main parliamentary blocs in their horse-trading over top posts.
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Von der Leyen secured victory by just nine votes, meaning the support of 5-Star was vital — a fact that the Italian group hopes will stand it in good stead in the future political horse-trading in Brussels.
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What happens after the election will be as important as the election itself, because that is when the horse-trading will begin over which parties can create a majority bloc in Parliament, and then choose the prime minister.
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Although Soviet mythology holds that Stalin designed the cartographical crazy quilt to undermine Central Asian solidarity, in practice the divisions were the result of horse-trading by local power-brokers keen to keep particular locations in their fiefs.
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There will be lots of horse-trading in the next weeks and months about who gets which top jobs — which involves balancing among big states and small; north and south; conservative, centrist and socialist; and male and female.
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Pension reform will be Bolsonaro's biggest challenge since he has yet to build a base in Congress, where he has eschewed the political horse-trading that traditionally helped Brazilian presidents govern the nation of nearly 210 million people.
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But Mr. Macron and his allies overrode that process — known by its German moniker spitzenkandidat, or "leading candidate" — and instead resorted to the old-style European horse-trading method to select a new European Commission president in July.
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When a pair of horse-trading grifters make a bad deal on a beautiful but savage mare, despite cryptic warnings from the seller's captivating daughter, Catherine, they find themselves stranded in a small town gripped by patriotic fervor.
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Meanwhile, Britain's financial services minister John Glen told a UK Finance dinner last week that Brexit gave an unprecedented opportunity to look again at a UK regulatory regime that will no longer be subject to EU horse-trading.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers will decide on Tuesday on the composition of an EU blacklist of tax havens that now includes about 20 jurisdictions but could end up with far fewer names after political horse-trading.
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Horse trading in the capital Brasilia became paramount for the party to stay on top, said Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo, a Roman Catholic priest and founding member of the PT who is known in Brazil as Frei Betto.
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He said on Monday the most likely scenario was that no Democratic candidate would win a majority of delegates and that picking the nominee could come down to "horse trading" at the Democratic convention in Milwaukee in July.
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Some political commentators say Duterte needs to get his legislative agenda passed as early as possible, or risk it being held hostage by money politics, horse-trading or a shifting of allegiances as the 2022 elections draw nearer.
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Pension reform will be Bolsonaro's biggest challenge since he has yet to build a base in Congress, where he has eschewed the political horse-trading that has traditionally helped Brazilian presidents govern the nation of nearly 210 million people.
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The vice chairman of Samsung Electronics and effective head of the entire conglomerate, Jay Y. Lee, was embroiled in a corruption scandal that included illegal horse trading, cult practices, and eventually contributed to the impeachment of South Korea's president.
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"But since Giscard and others wanted it, we incorporated it in a trade-off for more rights for the European Parliament," the veteran lawmaker said, illustrating the kind of horse-trading that is the way the EU does business.
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Southeast Asia, where the third member of the Renault-Nissan alliance - Mitsubishi Motors - dominates vehicle sales, could also be a area for potential horse-trading with Renault and FCA as they expand their presence in the fast-growing market.
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He does not offer a stirring vision of conservative national greatness or even ends-justify-the-means rationales for Senate horse-trading that depart from the disheartening transactional version of our politics that reigns in the Citizens United age.
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Merritt H. CohenEast Hanover, N.J. To the Editor: When I heard that President Trump was a master of the art of the deal, I expected that we would get lessons in diplomacy, nuance, negotiating skills, horse trading and such.
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And when lawmakers try to increase overall spending—as they have done multiple times in recent years—we'll work to educate their constituents about the harmful effects such horse trading has on our economy, our security, and our future.
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We each completely stand by this list, but it's also the result of honest compromise, arrived at after a great deal of wrangling, a bit of horse-trading, many emails and a whole lot of hours on the phone.
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After much unedifying horse-trading about who would head the European Commission, the bloc's leaders on Tuesday agreed a package deal that included naming International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde to replace Mario Draghi as European Central Bank president.
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"This type of political horse trading is a long way away from the language of neutral and careful analysis, but there are nonetheless lots of political subtexts and currents which sit behind the numbers," Quirk told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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A similar timeline will be difficult to follow this year, however, as euro zone governments are likely to decide who gets the role during horse-trading over a package that also includes jobs heading the European Commission and EU Council.
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Before horse-trading starts in earnest, the two sides are expected to try to settle two issues - how much Britain owes to the bloc and the future status of British citizens living in the EU and EU citizens living in Britain.
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Keefe Bruyette & Woods analyst Brian Gardner said he can imagine a scenario where horse trading in Congress next year results in a return of rules that would limit the activities of big banks as Congress tries to help smaller banks.
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But his refusal to engage in the usual political horse-trading of Brazilian politics - instead remaining aloof from direct dealings with Congress on the issue - had angered many lawmakers and increased the difficulty of obtaining sufficient support for the legislation.
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Around the same time, I argued that as a matter of political horse-trading, Democrats were going to have a harder time unifying their party after Clinton finally vanquished Sanders than they did in 2008, when Barack Obama defeated her.
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Full text: GOP's revised health care bill Now that the new bill is out, it's time for vote-counting and horse-trading -- and the pressure is on from President Donald Trump, who championed Republicans' health care efforts on Twitter Friday morning.
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This is when President Donald Trump flies to Singapore to look North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the eyes and begin what could very well turn out to be a long, frustrating and stressful process of diplomatic horse trading.
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On paper, she ought to be able to secure those votes comfortably, but may hit resistance in an assembly aggrieved that EU leaders ignored the lead candidates from the main parliamentary blocs - the "Spitzenkandidaten" - in their horse-trading over top posts.
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Editorial After several days of raucous horse-trading behind closed doors, the Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday picked Volodymyr Groysman, the speaker and a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko, as the new prime minister after the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
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Congressman Onyx Lorenzoni said he was making good on Bolsonaro's campaign pledge to end a system of horse-trading between party leaders in Brazilian politics, blamed for endemic corruption as past leaders wielded vast patronage in exchange for legislative support.
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Nonetheless, 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio has sent the ministerial list to President Sergio Mattarella in what he called an "act of transparency" in contrast with the back-room horse trading that often marks post-election government formation in Italy.
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HORSE-TRADING French President Emmanuel Macron visited Beijing this month with an attention-grabbing gift - a horse - and a mission to reset trade relations, seeking a role for the EU in China's trillion-dollar push to build a modern Silk Road.
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Fellow socialist EU leaders tasked Sanchez earlier in May to lead their camp in intense EU horse-trading in the coming weeks, another Spanish government source said, as the race starts in earnest to pick five names for top EU positions.
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"Then it goes to a convention, where there's horse-trading and everybody decides to compromise on — doesn't even have to be one of the two leading candidates, it could be somebody that had a smaller number of delegates," Bloomberg said.
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Mr. Baker proved especially adept at the math of the Senate — he would usually know precisely how many votes a piece of legislation could garner at any given moment, a valuable skill in the horse-trading world of Washington politics.
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In the juggernaut of horse trading over the European Union's top jobs, Ms. von der Leyen emerged as the surprise winner from days of back-room haggling, a qualified but compromise candidate to break what threatened to become an insurmountable deadlock.
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State law bars public officials from lobbying other public officials, and ethics experts have warned that any lobbying by Mr. Lhota could be particularly problematic because it could lead to horse-trading with lawmakers seeking better transit access for constituents.
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Together, the two decisions may have eroded the definition of corruption to the point where "politics as usual now seems to encompass personally profiting from horse-trading," said Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
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The complex horse-trading exercise is expected to take longer than just one EU summit, although officials warn that without an agreement by the end of the year, the bloc might not be able to spend on anything much from 2021.
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Virtually the entire federal government was destroyed — the ultimate "throw the bums out" — yet as newcomers have been assembled into a replacement Congress, the same sort of divisiveness and petty horse-trading that characterized the old order have quickly reappeared.
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Despite the day's feverish efforts — a combination of cajoling, browbeating and horse-trading that recalled Democrats' efforts to pass the law in 2010 — White House and congressional officials conceded Tuesday that they still lacked the votes to pass the bill.
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Under the conservatives' proposal, likely to be modified in horse-trading with the SPD, certificates would be issued granting wholesalers of fossil fuels the right to sell amounts above a cap equivalent to a yet-to-be-determined volume of carbon.
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But one Republican aide involved in the process said that GOP leaders had not yet engaged in the horse-trading needed to push the bill across the finish line — a key reason McConnell called off the vote early in the week.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - By upsetting southern Europeans with remarks about drinking and womanizing, Eurogroup president Jeroen Dijsselbloem has damaged his hopes of retaining his job and raised the possibility of a round of horse-trading over key economic posts in the euro zone.
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At that point, as the theory goes, rule changes, political horse-trading and backroom machinations could pull the nomination away from Trump the front-runner and hand it to one of his rivals, or even some outsider brought in by the GOP elites.
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The obvious danger he faces is that, if he fails to secure a majority of delegates, he may lose out to Mr Cruz or some other establishment-approved challenger in the horse-trading that would ensue at the Republican convention in July.
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Like many critics, Nally says the bidding process is open to horse-trading - as laid bare by the so-called Garcia report published by FIFA last week into race to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, won by Russia and Qatar respectively.
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In order to form a government, at least four of the major blocks will need to coalesce, but without a clear mandate or agenda, parties will resort to old practices of horse-trading for government positions and doling out patronage to their supporters.
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Mr. Trump, sensitive to the firestorm that could be provoked by limits on 2400(k) contributions, tweeted that there would "be NO change" to this "great and popular middle class tax break" — before conceding it might be a part of legislative horse-trading.
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The most likely scenario for the Democratic Party is that nobody has a majority and then it goes to a convention where there's horse trading and everybody decides to compromise on — it doesn't even have to be one of the two leading candidates.
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Madrid officials insisted that Berlin had promised them the ECB vice presidency in a previous round of horse trading, and Dublin apparently forswore its ambition for a seat at the central policy table, and surrendered to the desire for a continent-wide consensus.
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Warren wants to challenge a system she saw as fundamentally corrupt long before Trump arose, while Biden pitches a return to normalcy and the kind of politics in which compromise, horse trading, and home state interests are just part of the game.
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On paper, Von der Leyen ought to be able to secure those votes comfortably, but she may hit resistance in an assembly aggrieved that EU leaders ignored the lead candidates from the main parliamentary blocs - the "Spitzenkandidaten" - in their horse-trading over top posts.
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With a regime like North Korea, Pompeo realizes that it will require a lot of horse-trading to get North Korea to carry out each stage of this process, and that any unilateral announcement by the U.S. will result in North Korea cheating the agreement.
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Much of the horse-trading for who will get in, and who will miss out, happens behind closed doors, with generally speaking none of the overt campaigning that happens in places like neighboring Taiwan, the proudly democratic self-ruled island China claims as its own.
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The kiwi sank 1 percent overnight after New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English's National Party won the largest number of votes in Saturday's election but not enough seats to rule outright, leaving investors likely facing weeks of political horse-trading before a government is formed.
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Trump clearly prided himself on this sort of horse-trading throughout his career -- from his bestselling book "The Art of the Deal" to his 2016 presidential campaign in which he promised that he knew how to make better deals than anyone currently in office.
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So when he popped up on Fox years later to attack Black Lives Matter and decry Obama's anti-police "propaganda," he was renewing a cozy relationship founded not only on political horse-trading but also on a shared affinity for spittle-flecked, anti-liberal invective.
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On the heels of their recent (and in some quarters controversial) ranking of the top 25 movies released since the year 1003, Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott — The Times's chief film critics — share the "wrangling" and "horse-trading" that was involved in putting it together.
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"There's a lot of 'everyone does this kind of stuff, this is just politics, all politicians, all presidents would do this, withholding aid in exchange for something,' " Hickey said, explaining that West Virginia voters tend to see Trump's actions as typical political horse trading.
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Plea bargains are being brought in as part of the horse-trading over a larger criminal-justice reform, in which prosecutors opposed to routine recording of interrogations have managed to limit it, in exchange for formal recognition of plea-bargaining and other aids to investigating complex crimes.
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Recognizing that the court is now, often, just another way to get to a preferred political end, both Democrats and Republicans bring to the choice of a new justice the kind of scrutiny and horse trading that is never applied to positions further down the food chain.
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A statement after the talks tersely promised a "concept for clean air in our cities," while an unexpected pledge to build more wind and solar energy plants hinted at the horse-trading that took place as the three awkward partners struggled to unite around a common position.
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The most infamous example of extending a vote was the November 2003 House vote on the Medicare prescription drug program, when the Republican leadership kept the vote open for more than three hours while horse-trading for the last few votes in the dark hours before dawn.
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In the seven years the Republicans have hated and voted to repeal Obamacare, they could have put together a gold standard replacement, done their horse-trading with the Freedom Caucus and been poised at the starting gate to repeal and replace should a Republican be elected president.
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Government investigation finds federal agencies failing at cybersecurity basics Another part of the law as signed (OPEN was combined with a few others for convenience and horse-trading purposes) is that these agencies are also now officially required to find and present evidence for any new policies or changes.
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Critics will object to the murky process, though it was always going to take horse-trading to satisfy 27 states (Britain politely sat the business out), while striking a balance between right and left, north and south, east and west, big states and small ones, and between the sexes.
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Judge Moro and Brazilian prosecutors believe that a deeper political transformation can be achieved only through sweeping changes like overhauling campaign finance rules, doing away with the de facto immunity members of Congress enjoy in office and winnowing down the vast number of political parties, to curb horse trading.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump as "a fraud" on Thursday and urged primary voters to keep the outspoken New York billionaire from getting the nomination, paving the way for possible horse trading at a party convention in July.
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Another plus for Haddad, market sources said, was that even amid the political upheaval of recent years, the PT would be more prepared to engage in the political horse trading required to govern, as opposed to Bolsonaro, a member of Social Liberal Party, a fringe party with virtually no coalition.
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There are the grim details of the machinery, the practiced choreography of the procedure, the surgical horse-trading over inches of artery and vein, and at the center is a 19-year-old whose parents want him to hear the sound of the sea as his heart is surgically removed.
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It has been widely noted that by submitting to this process—which began with secret bill writing, continued with secret horse trading, and now moves to a rule-bound debate over no tangible bill—Senate Republicans have enabled a calamitous erosion of democratic accountability without any clear substantive outcome in mind.
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In a possible sign of the horse trading to come to try to secure votes, a spokesman for Mr. Lankford said on Sunday that the senator was working to insert language into the Senate bill to roll back the ban, and believed it had a good chance of being included.
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And that moment raises questions about the state of democracy, an Economist editorial contends, citing the political theorist Bernard Crick: Part of the reason is that, by spreading untruth and outrage, corroding voters' judgment and aggravating partisanship, social media erode the conditions for the horse-trading that Crick thought fosters liberty.
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They're more interested in purging the ideologically impure from their own ranks than they are in moving the ball down the field to achieve systemic reform, and they essentially view any cooperation in the legislative process (which, by definition, entails horse-trading and compromise) as a betrayal in and of itself.
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Von der Leyen, Germany's defense minister and a Merkel ally, needs to be confirmed in her new job by an absolute majority of EU lawmakers, and may hit resistance in an assembly aggrieved that EU leaders ignored the lead candidates from the main parliamentary blocs in their horse-trading over top posts.
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The maneuverings over who will replace Mr. Schneiderman have amounted not just to a diversion but an opportunity for exactly the kind of political horse-trading at which Mr. Cuomo, who gained a reputation as a sharp-elbowed operative while managing his father's campaigns more than three decades ago, has long excelled.
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A senior Brussels official said the amount, which compares to London's annual net EU payment of around 10 billion euros, would still be "peanuts" in terms of the overall economy and also that the final bill would be determined less by technical and legal arguments than by hard-headed political horse-trading.
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For most of its duration, we're invited to spend time with a wheeler-dealer and compulsive gambler who seems to perpetually be having at least two simultaneous conversations: one kvetching, one horse-trading, and both conducted with the speed of someone under a deadline, and at the volume level normally reserved for sporting events.
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The dividing up of jobs in Brussels after the May election will involve all the usual horse-trading: a big job for the EPP will come at the price of a big job for the S&D and perhaps one too for the ALDE-Macroniste alliance, especially if it overtakes the centre-left and comes second.
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Instead of engaging in the typical legislative horse-trading for nominating judges — promising a senator, for instance, that the president will support the nomination of the lawyer who served as the senator's campaign-finance chairman in exchange for a yes vote on the administration's agriculture bill — the Trump White House has given the counsel's office near-absolute authority.
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Yet an examination of Mr. Gillum's record lays bare the central contradiction of his political life: Self-styled as an activist-minded populist, with a lunch-pail upbringing in south Miami-Dade County, he is also an avatar of the capital city he runs — a town powered by ambition, horse-trading and alliances with well-placed power players.
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Setting aside for a moment the Iowa Democratic caucus' convoluted rules of candidates' meeting a 15% threshold to determine viability and the ensuing spectacle of horse trading for second choices played out in high school gymnasiums, the outright chaos of this moment ought to be enough to shut down this sham and farce of a process.
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As many as 28 parties will compete, from such zany outfits as the Jesus Lives Party and the Party of Non-Voters to the mainstream Christian Democrats and the V.V.D. No party is likely to be large enough to form a government on its own, so the elections will be followed by a period of horse-trading among party leaders.
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Turks in Fatih tend to take Erdogan's side in all his knotted-up foreign and domestic entanglements, not just the failed coup but his disputes with Russia, his tortured relations with America, his brutal conflict with the Kurds, his leniency toward jihadist fighters passing through Turkey to take part in Syria's civil war, his horse trading with the European Union over refugees fleeing Syria.
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An added element of this year's horse-trading will be the fate of the 73 British members, whom some colleagues want to see sidelined and removed from key roles even before Britain leaves the EU. Center-right officials say Schulz should make way for an EPP president as agreed when the EPP let Schulz win in 2014 as part of deal that saw Parliament back Juncker at the Commission.
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The Paul McCartney thing ends up ... The reason I couldn't believe how candid he was, but how excited I was by it, was that it created whole secret histories that were happening right behind the scenes of all the covers and the biweekly things that we've seen throughout the history ... And there's a lot of horse trading and favors and betrayals that if you look at any one of them individually are pretty petty.
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It also wants access to U.S. technology, which often has dual uses that would threaten U.S. national security interests, as well as greater and more transparent access to investment in the U.S. Our issues are more numerous and as a free, open-market economy, the U.S. has very few "gives" not already available to China, so a solely horse-trading approach to the negotiations, defined entirely by give and take, will not be fruitful.
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If there are hard feelings from a loser in the horse trading, charges of a corrupt bargain are certain to be made, especially by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFed saw risks to US economy fading before coronavirus spread quickened Pro-Trump super PAC hits Biden with new Spanish-language ad in Nevada Britain announces immigration policy barring unskilled migrants MORE, who still uses complaints over the fairly straightforward 2016 nomination fight to attack Democrats.
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But the creative vibe of these hothouse experiments attracted other works-in-progress: While D'Angelo and company held court in Studio A, the rapper Common began recording his new album in Studio B, and others (the rapper Mos Def, for example) followed suit in Studio C. These simultaneous recording projects often shared personnel, a sonic aesthetic, even concrete musical ideas: a riff or a groove conceived for one artist might be put to better use by another, leading to some tactical horse trading.
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