Reply #5: The committee has yet to meet, so it may be that it is premature

[karynnj]

for there to be any specifics of a compromise to be even be floated yet. There are no direct quotes of Kerry ruling anything in or out - anywhere. I think the Senate speeches he has given this year related to this issue give some view into what he thinks reasonable, but it is impossible to go from there to how much he would move to avoid the triggers.

One thing I haven't seen in any detail is what the trigger actually would result in. In addition, the question is whether Congress could revoke the triggers - and whether ANY Republicans would favor that. If the answer is that the trigger can not or will not be revoked, the test of any compromise must be not whether it is worse than where we are, but whether it is worse than what the trigger would do.

I suspect that this is why that committee really is a political suicide mission - at least for the Democrats.