The Administration agreed to support another provision, to reduce the overall contribution to the United Nations budget and require bureaucratic changes at the organization.
Some money would also be awarded to school systems to encourage bureaucratic and curriculum changes.
Even innocuous bureaucratic changes have taken on an ominous sheen.
That list would become a map for budgetary and bureaucratic changes in the espionage agencies in this decade.
Another bureaucratic change, Clinton aides say, will be to break down the wall between the National Security Council and the Council of Economic Advisers.
But Prime Minister David Cameron said: "This is not some small bureaucratic change.
In New York and California, the rhetoric of work has far outpaced the needed bureaucratic change, and the heavy lifting is essentially being left to the counties.
But in a time of sweeping bureaucratic change, mistakes are easily made.
But members of Congress on both sides of the debate agreed that any deal that eventually wins their approval will require a mountain of legislative and bureaucratic changes.
This is not some small bureaucratic change.