1.   Accordingly, the compromise measure gives states authority to license investment advisers and bring enforcement action against advisors of any size.

2.   After lengthy negotiations with the congressional leadership, he signed a compromise measure last month.

3.   Both the House and Senate versions will be merged into a compromise measure in conference between the two chambers.

4.   But a House-Senate conference has nearly completed a compromise measure.

5.   But late Friday, a small group of senators blocked a final vote on the compromise measure, effectively killing it for this year.

6.   But now the compromise measure is being seriously challenged by a more conservative proposal that drops the ban on assault rifles and cuts money for certain crime prevention programs.

7.   Conferees from both chambers next will try to reconcile the two bills into one compromise measure for the House and Senate to consider.

8.   Conferees from both chambers next week will try to reconcile the two bills into one compromise measure for the House and Senate to send to the president.

9.   Democrats renewed their call Thursday for a compromise measure they offered earlier in the year.

10.   Despite extensive negotiations, the Cobb commissioners last month defeated a compromise measure proposed by the commission chairman, Bill Byrne.