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 ...

ST. PAUL -- Minnesota voters send 201 lawmakers to St. Paul, expecting each to have a voice in how their tax money is spent, and whether to enact laws affecting them. But the spotlight now shines on ...

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 ...

Kansas Sen. Tory Marie Blew was removed from a committee after opposing a voter ID bill, which she called a "waste of time." ...

CONCORD – With Thursday the deadline to form committees of conference, the New Hampshire Senate agreed to a number of House requests including those related to creating a committee for cannabis sales, ...

The biggest hangup on the bill has been the makeup of the authority's governing board, in particular, it's ninth seat.

The partisan school board bill will likely undergo some changes, but language allowing candidates to declare a political party will remain in the bill, following a Monday conference committee hearing ...

The linchpin to avoiding another government shutdown in mid-February is a House-Senate conference committee on border security which publicly convenes Wednesday afternoon. Either the sides work out a ...

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire lawmakers signed off on dozens of deals Thursday, reconciling differences between the House and Senate positions ahead of next week’s final votes. On a bill that has ...

The Minnesota House and Senate conference committees have been appointed and, in some cases, already have begun to meet. The biggies, of course, are the tax and K-12 education committees, where House ...