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 ...

Both the House and Senate have passed their respective tax reform bills, but keep the cork in the champagne. The process has to overcome one more hurdle before it hits the president’s desk: 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 ...

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, ...

The partisan school board bill will likely undergo some changes, but language allowing candidates to declare a political party will remain in the bill, following a Monday conference committee hearing ...

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 ...

Longtime readers may recall all the emphasis placed in this column on the final days of a given legislative session, analogizing the last two weeks to the final minutes of a National Basketball ...

The Minnesota House and Senate conference committees have been appointed and, in some cases, already have begun to meet. The biggies, of course, are the tax and K-12 education committees, where House ...

Adam N. Michel focused on tax policy and the federal budget as a Senior Policy Analyst in the Grover M. Hermann Center. The House and Senate each passed different versions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ...

JUNEAU — The Alaska House and Senate have appointed six members to a conference committee that will work on final negotiations over the state budget ahead of the end of the legislative session next ...