Constitutionally, legislation must pass the House and Senate with identical language. Reconciling differences, no matter how minor, in bills from the two bodies must be made. Even though bicameral ...

House and Senate conference committees began meeting this week to consider appropriations and language in various omnibus finance bills. The process includes negotiating a compromise and then sending ...

CONCORD – With Thursday the deadline to form committees of conference, the New Hampshire Senate agreed to a number of House requests including those related to creating a committee for cannabis sales, ...

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is looking to convince wary Democrats against blocking the first energy bill conference committee in a decade. The Senate could ...

In return for her vote on this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) offered Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) a spot on the House and Senate conference committee ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota voters send 201 lawmakers to St. Paul, expecting each to have a voice in how their tax money is spent, and whether to enact laws affecting them. But the spotlight now shines on ...

A number of the Conference Committee has been "interviewed," and what follows, though not in any sense official, is authoritative, and will serve to show our readers the present position of the ...

The linchpin to avoiding another government shutdown in mid-February is a House-Senate conference committee on border security which publicly convenes Wednesday afternoon. Either the sides work out a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The state’s largest corporate tax cut on record will head to a conference committee after the Senate “refused to recede” from their version of the bill and adopt the House ...

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The House of Representatives has constituted a bipartisan conference committee to harmonise areas of difference between the ...