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 ...

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BISMARCK - A group of lawmakers assigned to work out differences in a traffic fine bill stared at each other in silence Wednesday morning before adjourning for the day without discussing anything.

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 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 ...

The Senate approved a telecommunications bill Wednesday that puts pressure on the Shumlin administration to move the E-911 board into the Department of Public Safety. If the secretary of the Agency of ...

Maryland state lawmakers spent Saturday trying to hammer out differences in legislation passed by the two chambers.Download the WBAL appIn a day of fits and starts, the House opened its Saturday ...

When the 12-team College Football Playoff was announced, it came with a couple of key goals. Among them was to reframe the focus on conference championships and truly reward teams that reach the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO/AP) – A landmark conference committee has reached an agreement on legislation aimed at combatting opioid addiction in Minnesota. As outlined in the bill, drug companies must pay ...

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the Conference Committee has ended its consideration of the marking system, the question may fairly be asked, how far it has fulfilled its purposes; to what extent it ...