Reid said Tuesday that much work remains in the amendment process of debating the bill, indicating possible compromises in the complex legislation that overhauls the nation's health care system.
Cable and Wireless said it was already in the process of testing a bill cap for roaming data that should be available later this year.
What happens when the two houses of parliament disagree on a bill is the fabled process of "parliamentary ping-pong", which I imagine I'm going to be talking about rather a lot in months to come.
Following cross-party talks on Thursday night - which will resume next week - the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will begin the process of drawing up a draft bill implementing the Leveson recommendations.
Republicans also felt like they were left out of the negotiating process in reconciling the House and Senate versions of the bill.
The biggest lesson in the months-long process of creating this bill is that the government will act swiftly when it's concerned that certain entities are too important to fail.
Mr Thomas welcomed the fact that the bill would streamline the process of law making and will give greater discretion for local authorities across Wales.
The health care bill that I passed begins the process of trying to reduce the cost of health care, reforming the cost of health care by, for example, telling providers instead of having five tests that you charge for each one, have one test and email to the five specialists who may need the test. (Applause.) Start using electronic medical records.
The Washington state Senate and House have already approved different versions of the bill, and the legislature is in the process of merging the two together for final approval.
Assembly members will now begin a process of scrutinising the bill ahead of a future vote.
However, critics have said the reassessment is part of an attempt to cut the overall welfare bill and they are unhappy with many aspects of the reassessment process.
The two current Senate bills are now being reconciled into a version that the upper chamber will vote on soon, and the outcome of that process must be reconciled with whatever merged bill passes the House.
The stated purpose of this bill is to "streamline" the process whereby inventors - the engine behind American entrepreneurialism and economic vitality - can be given patent protection for their products.
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In the case of this tax bill, it was pushed through Congress as part of the budget reconciliation process, which means it can naturally only address the ten years of the budget window.
Due process guarantees under the taxpayer bill of rights can allow taxpayers to go a really long time without paying, offer to settle for substantially less than the full amount and then appeal a rejection of that offer to Tax Court.
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The trouble with the Bill of Rights, he argues, is that it emphasizes process and procedure rather than principles.
This had created a "rising sense of antipathy" to the process which the bill would help remedy by giving "greater opportunities for communities to have their say".
And they added that the current lack of an independent appeals process for landowners who object to the route was a "fundamental weakness" of the draft Bill.
Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, accused the Education Secretary of "showing disregard for parliamentary process" by failing to publish the draft admissions code alongside the Education Bill, which has been debated in the House of Commons in recent weeks.
In the wake of that uproar, a bill was proposed in the Senate that would have made the CFIUS review process much more rigorous and lengthy, but the measure died due to strong opposition from the business community.
And in just a few minutes, you're going to hear a little bit more about the whole process of state visits and dinners from White House Historian, Bill Allman.
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And, again, go back to my health care analogy -- we had an issue that had been something that scientists had talked about for quite some time, is through half of the process in getting the House to agree on a bill.
Because I think it will be a good educational process for people to weigh the arguments about the relative merits of the bill instead of listening to millions of dollars' worth of insurance industry ads that have been put out there or whatever pundit on the left or the right is saying about these different issues.
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The bill will now move to stage two of the legislative process, where a significant number of amendments are expected.
Senior allies of Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader, are remarkably candid about the three-part process that led up to their mauling of an NHS reform bill (a bill that Lib Dem MPs had earlier supported on its first trundle through Parliament).
Meanwhile, the swaps rules, which everyone expected would go away once Lincoln got past her primary run off, remain in the Senate bill at this late date in the reconciliation process despite an onslaught of financial industry lobbying.
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If, after the process of considering amendments, it proves impossible to reach agreement on a non-financial bill, then the bill may be lost.
And that's why we have passed a defense bill that eliminates some of the waste and inefficiency in our defense process -- reforms that will better protect our nation, better protect our troops, and save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.
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The process has been stalled by the Senate's high-profile consideration of the patients' bill of rights and the weeklong Independence Day break.
Another likely result of the process to play out in the House would find the GOP caucus amending the Senate bill and sending it back to the Senate to approve House originated changes.
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