September 23, 2005

Senate Compromise Yields a Bipartisan Higher-Education Bill

By KELLY FIELD

When Michael B. Enzi, a Republican, became chairman of the Senate's education committee last January, he struck a deal with the ranking Democrat, Edward M. Kennedy: They would focus on the 80 percent of issues they could agree on, and leave the other 20 percent -- the divisive ones -- for the Senate floor.

Nine months later, the fruits of that "80-20 agreement" between Mr. Enzi, of Wyoming, and Mr. Kennedy, of Massachusetts, can be seen in the committee's plans to renew the

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