At a recent hearing, Democratic Rep. Kay Floyd, who was an administrative law judge before winning election to the Legislature, expressed concern that several bills the committee passed appeared to be unconstitutional.
The House committees' joint bill and the Senate health committee bills would also create a new, publicly run health plan, which they hope would compete with private insurers and drive down prices.
For the first time ever, they've passed bills through every single committee responsible for reform.
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Two bills are now in committee in the House of Representatives calling for the creation of a new Federal Chief Information Officer.
Mr Ewing was giving evidence after the UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey told the committee fuel bills would rise substantially in Scotland if it became independent.
If the House and Senate manage to pass health care reform bills, a conference committee would then negotiate a final version requiring approval from both chambers before going to President Obama for his signature.
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On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee passed bills that would eliminate the advertising ban, raise the investor threshold to 1, 000 from 500, and remove restrictions on so-called crowd-funding (when entrepreneurs raise money from relatives or others who aren't SEC-accredited, within certain limits).
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The rhetoric has been the same from both sides since at least 2001, but the debate came alive this year when patent reform bills made it out of committee.
Federal bills to ban pestware are in committee in the House and Senate.
That includes the personal account bills introduced by now House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan in 2004 and 2005, and the bill introduced by Rep. Thaddeus McCotter last September.
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Meanwhile, the full Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee met Thursday to consider bills related to Minerals Management Service reform and to offshore drilling.
So, not only does he want a committee, he wants parliamentary counsel, the experts who actually draft bills, in attendance to work out new clauses which reflect the will of the committee.
Differences in the two bills will need to be worked out in committee.
The committee suggests that better programming of bills would promote compromise and help reduce the use of guillotine motions.
On June 19th, the Senate Commerce Committee approved the first of these bills and promised that it would be toughened further before coming up for a full vote.
The introduction last week of two bills by the Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) that would require a serious look at monetary policy suddenly makes such a breakthrough a real possibility.
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Bernie Sanders and 29 Democratic colleagues sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is leading the effort to blend the bills of two committees the Finance Committee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Hearings for two bills are headed for the New Hampshire House Education Committee in February.
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In the House, the Appropriations Committee Tuesday marked up its two corresponding bills.
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Indeed, there was some tension over whether the House and Senate would convene a formal conference committee to bridge the differences between their bills.
This is a very parliamentary book - delving as it does into committee-stage debates on doomed reform bills and the deliberations of tiny campaign groups.
These bills will be managed by the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen.
John McCain, R-Arizona, chairs the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which handles most of these Internet privacy bills, may give McCain's own proposals an edge.
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Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
Since they are tax bills, they've been referred to the Ways and Means Committee.
As chairman of the health, education, labor and pensions committee, he's the lead negotiator on several bills that will either become law in the next few months or have to start the process all over next year.
On the basis of these figures, the committee can be fairly relaxed about the impact of higher energy bills on pay demands.
One for the insiders is the Procedure Committee hearing (at 3.05pm) on private members' bills.
Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, not only won a veneer of bipartisanship with Ms Snowe's vote, but has also crafted a bill that is more moderate than the four other health bills that have already been passed (one by the Senate's health committee, and three by various House committees).
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