Legislators reschedule rare conference committee on immigration bill

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

The importance of a conference 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 ...
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, ...
The Hill

Conference committee could still destroy tax reform

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 ...