Weeks of negotiations loom, as House and Senate conferees will have to negotiate their differences.
Conferees involved in the final mark-up of the bill have reportedly strengthened the original bill.
House and Senate conferees to the Agriculture bill postponed a Wednesday meeting until Thursday afternoon.
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The Cambridge conferees heard two suggestions to explain away Mathilde's lightness, but neither is very convincing.
Yet the conferees could not approve a resolution even mentioning Iraq, let alone agree to punish it.
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Steps needed include the naming of conferees, a House-Senate conference, and final passage (a simple majority) in both Houses.
Mr. Boehner is now demanding that Mr. Reid name conferees for a House-Senate conference on the payroll tax bills.
Liaison partnerships- The conferees support the FBI's policy prohibiting any formal non-investigative cooperation with unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism cases.
Although the deadline established by the conferees has come and gone, Congress has yet to receive this important report.
We also talked about the financial regulatory reform package that has now cleared both the House and the Senate conferees.
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Among the ill-advised provisions now being considered by the conferees on H.
House and Senate conferees resolved most of their remaining differences Tuesday night.
As the conferees ended their final day of talks, Iraqi officials said they were pleased at what's been promised and would head home with renewed optimism.
Both these major issues have been blocking final passage of the agriculture spending bill, and House and Senate conferees will meet Monday to work out the final details.
We believe that a significant portion of the funding could be available if the appropriation Conferees were to moderate the high level of earmarks within the NASA budget.
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Bush aides have charged that the Democratically controlled Senate has been slow to name conferees for a committee to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill.
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But Grassley and Baucus warned that if House-Senate conferees approve any significant shift from their bill, it could lose support from key moderates on both sides of the aisle and fail.
The conferees expect the FBI to insist on full compliance with this policy by FBI field offices and to report to the Committees on Appropriations regarding any violation of the policy.
Senate Appropriates Committee conferees, who today secured funding for 10 additional C-17 airlifters, are to be commended for recognizing the inadvisability of terminating the production line of the Nation's only highly capable, heavy-lift transport aircraft.
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The fact that the House Republican conferees were excluded from the final decisions on this bill, and have chosen as a result not to sign the final conference report, ensures that a veto would be sustained.
The House conferees, however, are attempting to interpret the Durbin amendment as pertaining only to such liberalization efforts as may occur in the future with respect to technologies still controlled once the 1990 EAA amendments are enacted.
The Center for Security Policy strongly believes that the Defense Authorization conferees should insist upon the continued operation of the SR-71 until such time as a replacement aircraft one with at least equivalent capabilities is in operation .
"It is important for House conferees to realize that it is going to be difficult for the conference to come up with a bill that does not represent the bipartisan provisions of the Senate bill, " said Baucus, who angered many in his own party by working with Republicans on the tax bill.
Then, instead of immediately reconciling the House and Senate versions of the bill and getting a final bill to the president so it could be returned to Congress for reconsideration, House leaders delayed appointing conferees for almost three weeks three weeks during which the deadline for getting this funding to the troops came and went.
As you are aware, the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2013 - the final text of which was agreed upon recently by House of Representatives and Senate Conferees, and will soon come to a vote before both bodies - contains a provision prohibiting the use of federal funds to transfer terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay to facilities inside the United States.
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Because of the incredibly hard work of Chairman Dodd and Chairman Frank, and the strong leadership of Chairwoman Lincoln and Chairman Peterson, and the great efforts of the conferees and members of both parties -- who were up very late last night -- we are poised to pass the toughest financial reform since the ones we created in the aftermath of the Great Depression.
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