Only after both the House and Senate have reached an agreement on a bill can it be presented to the president for his final approval.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

you tell me you believe American people should understand about each, We talked about stimulus, and you argues that it is not simulative at all, the cap and trade global warming bill passed the house in late June and now move to the Senate.

您说过,您认为美国人,应该彼此理解，我们讨论了刺激计划，您说刺激没有效果，全球变暖总量控制与交易法案,今年六月刚在众议院通过,现正在参议院审议中。

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The bill was passed by close votes in the House and Senate.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

House and Senate bills would be subject to further negotiations in conference committee before any legislation would go to the president for signature.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

When the House and Senate debate their respective plans next week, Republicans are expected to offer amendments to cut or freeze government spending.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

melding the House and Senate versions of the sweeping health care reform bill into one.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Whatever reform plan emerges from the various House and Senate committees would need to pass both houses of Congress before going to Mr.Obama for his signature.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

Treasury Secretary Geithner said the Obama administration will continue working with House and Senate lawmakers on details of the proposal as it moves into final legislative form.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

But while both the House and Senate bills aim to help the roughly 30 million Americans with no health care insurance, there are big differences in legislative language.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Late Thursday, the Democratic-led House and Senate voted in support of the administration's budget framework, which calls for higher spending on domestic programs like education and health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

The House and Senate versions agree on core principles.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

But before any bill can become law, the Senate must pass its version, the House and Senate bills must be reconciled and that final measure must be signed by the President.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

In his speech Friday, President Obama referred again to criticisms Republicans have made of the health-care reform legislation, separate versions of which were approved last year by the House and Senate.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

When Congress returns in the new year, negotiators for the House and Senate will begin the tough task of merging their different versions of health-care reform legislation into one bill the president can sign.

VOA: standard.2009.12.27

Majority Democrats in the House and Senate crafted various legislative proposals that would try to recover funds by imposing sharp taxes on bonuses paid by companies that were rescued by government bail out money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

House Majority Leader, Democrat Steny Hoyer says House and Senate budget plans will be a "broad brush" blueprint to achieve the objectives of repairing the economy in the short-term and putting the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

In a statement, the Democratic chairmen of three key House committees said while there are clear differences between House and Senate bills, both will bring fundamental health care coverage to millions who are currently uninsured.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Political experts say the stakes in the health care debate are huge,not only for President Obama, but also for congressional Democrats who will defend their House and Senate seats in next year's midterm congressional elections.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

While President Obama has said the government should use every legal method to block the bonuses, and House and Senate lawmakers prepared legislation aimed at recovering funds, the administration and Congress also face legal complications in doing so.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

"I am confident and hopeful that he will now - getting this clear message from both the House and Senate on the appropriations bill - begin to rethink the appropriateness of an arbitrary timeline for the closing of Guantanamo,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Isn't it time we stopped working for the government and the government started working for us?" Democrats in Congress pushed a modified version of the president's spending plan through the House and Senate last week, despite strong Republican opposition.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

The package under which Pakistan is to get $1.5 billion in U.S.non-military aid in each of the next five years was hailed by both governments when it was overwhelmingly approved by the House and Senate last month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Republicans are hoping for a replay of the 1994 midterm elections, when they won control of both the House and Senate in large part because of public opposition to the health-care-reform plan put forward by another Democrat in the White House,Bill Clinton.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

Before a meeting on Tuesday with Democrats on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, one of five House and Senate panels preparing legislation, the president said again that Congress needs to put politics aside and get the job done.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

No future president would be safe, they said, if opposed by a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Both the House and the Senate must approve a bill in order for it to become law.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Zhao Ya wants to know the difference between the United States House of Representatives and the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Three committees in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate were asked to develop bills.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

Their idea worked. By the end of September, both the Senate and House of Representatives had approved all parts of the eighteen fifty compromise.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

Soon there would be enough free states to control both the House and the Senate.

VOA: special.2009.03.12