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 ...

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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 ...

The House of Representatives and the Senate don’t always agree on everything and often disagree on the exact details of a bill. Before a bill can be sent to the president and signed into law, it must ...

Maryland state lawmakers spent Saturday trying to hammer out differences in legislation passed by the two chambers.Download the WBAL appIn a day of fits and starts, the House opened its Saturday ...

Around noon on Wednesday, word begin to spread to media outlets that Republican conferees in the House and Senate had reached a deal in merging the two bills. About two hours later, the conference ...

Members of the Bicameral Conference Committee, comprising lawmakers from the House of Representatives and the Senate, go into ...

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 ...

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The House of Representatives, under the leadership of Speaker Faustino Dy III, has always been firm in its commitment to ...

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The newly elected Federal Conference Committee (FCC) met on the evening 8 December, following the most recent round of ...