The two sides would then seek to have Congress write the deal into law.
The present sugar support program was written into law in 1981.
Senate Republicans will push next week to write the 1982 policy into law.
The Senate tax bill would write those regulations into law.
Once written into law, some Administration officials say, such targets would be difficult to change.
But the only way to make sure that things have actually changed is for Congress to write the new rules and procedures into law.
Its goal of preparing children for school is written into law.
Those rules were written into law by Congress in 1907.
How could this be written into federal law without a big public policy debate?
All those years ago, the king had made a bargain with his people, even if it were not written into law.