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 ...

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 ...

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 Indiana bill that includes a ban on sweepstakes casinos is out of conference committee and ready to go before both ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Alaska Senate has voted unanimously to join a conference committee intended to create a compromise state budget for the coming fiscal year. The Senate and House have each passed different versions ...

BOSTON — Western Massachusetts legislators on Wednesday lauded the first meeting of a conference committee assembled to iron out differences in dueling House and Senate bills to improve veterans’ ...