Congressman Henry Cuellar announced that he has been appointed to this year’s Conference Committee for Military Construction ...

The House is making a push to formally conference government funding legislation for fiscal 2026 with the Senate, breaking with recent norms as Congress stares down a Sept. 30 deadline to prevent ...

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 ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is pushing for an “old-school conference” to approve up to three regular government funding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...

WASHINGTON — One of the first issues to confront the first Congress in 1789 was how members ought to address the new president, George Washington. The more regal Senate wanted to give him a title, ...