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 ...

According to Idaho legislative records, conference committees have been convened in five of the past 30 years. Most – but not all – were successful at working out differences between the House and the ...

Long-awaited changes to the nation's K-12 policy got one huge step closer to completion Thursday. Legislation that would alter No Child Left Behind passed through a conference committee of House and ...

JUNEAU -- The Legislature's free conference committee opened for business Tuesday morning with the goal of merging the House and Senate education bills into a single version that could pass both ...

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 ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The budget conference committee will hash out a compromise of 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 ...

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 ...

Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Bristol, second from left, speaks as members of the House and Senate Education Conference Committee meet on Tuesday. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger [N]egotiations between the ...