The Hill

Bring back the conference committees

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 ...
Twin Cities Daily Planet

Conference committees have sometimes unpopular task of compromise

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 Telegraph

Senate agrees to set up conference committees on key bills

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, ...
Washington Examiner

MTG to be on conference committee for NDAA after agreement with McCarthy

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 ...
Biloxi Sun Herald

Legislative rules say conference meetings are open. But are they?

House and Senate conferees met for days including through the Easter weekend in 1997 to hammer out an agreement on the landmark Mississippi Adequate Education Program legislation that was ultimately ...
Fox News

How the House-Senate Conference Committee aims to avert another shutdown

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 ...
WKRN-TV

Franchise and excise tax cut bills heading to conference committee

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 ...
West Central Tribune

Conference committees controversial but important

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 ...
E&E

Murkowski urges Dems not to bury conference committee

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 ...
WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Hashing out and merging two bills, Mass. conference committee members weigh cannabis reforms

This month, a group of Massachusetts lawmakers met for the first time to weigh two different approaches to changing the state ...
Yahoo

Alaska Legislature forms conference committee for final budget negotiations

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 14—JUNEAU — The Alaska House and Senate have appointed six members to a conference committee that will work on final ...