One method to picking numbers in bills is to choose a range. The highest number with the highest majority would be enacted. Example- picking a tax rate (as a percent of gross domestic product) A 10-15 B 12-18 C 9-19 D 16-21 E 17-30 9 1 10 2 11 2 12 3 13 3 14 3 15 3 16 4 17 4 18 4 19 3 20 2 21 2 22-30 1 18 would be enacted (assuming using whole numbers only). A tie breaker vote could, of course, be done among the peak values (16, 17, 18). In a real partisan situation, of course, the ranges might be very narrow with extremes that did not overlap (e.g. 3 votes for 20-21; 2 votes for 10-11)
