While the amendment did not address those issues, it was the suprising result of a day of backroom negotiations by top Senate leaders.

After several days of backroom negotiations, the House approved a federal budget plan yesterday that is a model of fiscal evasion and irresponsibility.

They go into a backroom negotiation with him, and they come out bamboozled.

Though backroom negotiations have intensified, the Army has also engaged in saber-rattling.

There were attempted backroom negotiations that ultimately failed.

When the backroom negotiations ended earlier this month, the committee was largely intact.

And they have not participated in any of the backroom negotiations to resolve the crisis, the Treasury official said.

For six days, Davos is a stage for working through the world's problems in speeches and backroom negotiations.

By forcing the Council to work under the scrutiny of the cameras, we will end up with formal exchanges and backroom negotiations.

They deliberately cut most developing countries out of the backroom negotiations at Copenhagen.