Members of the Iowa House and Senate were scheduled to hold a rare Conference Committee on Monday to reach an agreement on an ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — House GOP leaders moved on Monday to set up a conference committee charged with hashing out all the differences between the House and Senate tax overhaul plans. The Senate is expected to ...

Bills to force state intervention in MSCS passed last year, but legislation in the chambers didn't match. Now, a committee ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...