Sentences with phrase «senate conference committee»

A House - Senate conference committee, which would meet after the Senate passes its appropriations bill, would determine which version of the ban would go to the president for signature.

Both the House and the Senate had passed bills by late November, paving the way for a House - Senate conference committee to hammer out differences between the two bills in late January.

These potential mandatory energy inspections and scoring provisions are only a small part of S. 2400, An Act to promote energy diversity, which is now in House - Senate Conference Committee.

The House - Senate conference committee made changes to tax reform that are better for homeowners although NAR remains concerned the bill on balance is not good for them because many middle - income homeowners will no longer itemize.

Once that's done, and once the Senate acts on its Superfund legislation, a House - Senate conference committee will write a single bill for consideration by the president.

Federal legislation is now before a House - Senate conference committee.

NAR asked the House and Senate conference committee to take the following into consideration:

In October, SACE joined with a coalition of 135 other organizations to urge the House - Senate Conference Committee to pass a Farm Bill with a strong energy title, including REAP.

The greens, hawks, and farmers helped convince the Senate to add an ethanol provision to the energy bill — now awaiting action by a House - Senate conference committee — that would require refiners to more than double their use of ethanol to 8 billion gallons per year by 2012.

Today the members of the US House - Senate conference committee said «no» to the so - called Puppy Protection Act (PPA) and omitted it from the final version of the Farm Bill.

The Farm Bill conference report released today by the House - Senate conference committee includes two major wins on animal welfare issues, and was applauded by The HSUS and the Humane Society Legislative Fund.

Financial Management Independent schools might breathe a small sigh of relief in reviewing the final compromise version of the sweeping tax overhaul legislation released December 15 by the House and Senate conference committee.

Independent schools might breathe a small sigh of relief in reviewing the final compromise version of the sweeping tax overhaul legislation released December 15 by the House and Senate conference committee.

Unfortunately, initial excitement surrounding the House - Senate conference committee on NCLB seems to have dwindled even as congressional staff near the finish line in NCLB negotiations.

It's finally happening: a House - Senate conference committee has reached a compromise, moving forward to replace the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

This webinar will cover the latest developments for ESEA modernization, including House - Senate conference committee actions and initial implementation efforts, should the legislation become law.

Today, the House - Senate Conference Committee approved S. 1177 — the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) with amendments — by a vote of 39 Yeas to 1 Nay.

Leaders from the House Education and the Workforce Committee and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) purportedly are preparing for the next steps with a House - Senate conference committee reportedly convening soon and a reconciled bill could be considered by both chambers in December.

Congress was poised late on Nov. 19 to reauthorize the main federal special education law, after a House - Senate conference committee hammered out a bipartisan compromise designed to improve the educational opportunities of some 6.7 million children with disabilities.

In meetings of a House - Senate conference committee held earlier this month, senators generally appeared receptive to...

The compromise measure, developed by Representative ErnestineGlossbrenner, chairman of the House education committee, and Senator Carl A. Parker, chairman ofthe Senate education panel, was 3passed out of a House - Senate conference committee by an 8 - to - 2 vote last Thursday and was expected to be taken up by the House this week.

A House - Senate conference committee last week began marking up a compromise bill amending the jobs program.

Changes were made by a House - Senate conference committee, so the law, as enacted, remedied the most glaring problems, but created others.

The camaraderie was the latest attempt to build support both for Mr. McWherter's education - reform package, which remains stalled in a House - Senate conference committee, and for tax - reform efforts tabled by lawmakers.

In South Carolina, meanwhile, a House - Senate conference committee continued meetings last week to try to forge a consensus on a sex - education measure in that state.

Meanwhile, a House - Senate conference committee met for the first time last week to try to negotiate a compromise version.

Observers said that House and Senate conference committee members were close to reaching an agreement on the volatile school - choice issue, which has been a major factor in the legislature's inability to adopt a reform bill.

(In August the House of Representatives passed a bill that would leave CAFE standards unchanged; a House - Senate conference committee is expected to resolve the differences between the bills later this year.)

Although the measures passed with little opposition, the wording «will be cleaned out» when it goes to a House - Senate conference committee, predicts Representative Raymond McCarter.

Schumer and Katko served on a House - Senate conference committee charged with ironing out the differences between the two versions of the bill, and both advocated for keeping the High Density States program in the final legislation.

A House - Senate conference committee's final bill includes more than $ 500 million a year for seven states and the District of Columbia, according to U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D - N.Y., who worked with Reps. John Katko, R - Camillus, and Richard Hanna, R - Barneveld to restore the money.

Now it will be up to a House - Senate conference committee to negotiate a final bill that irons out differences in the two versions.

The bill is being negotiated by a House - Senate Conference Committee that includes Katko and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.).

2011 culminated in my being chosen for the joint House - Senate conference committee to negotiate the future of the payroll tax holiday, Medicare «doc fix,» and other initiatives.

The House — Senate conference committee about the national farm bill is underway, and the most contentious issue is whether to cut the Food Stamps program by up to $ 40 billion over ten years.

On Friday evening, the House - Senate Conference Committee released the final version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

A House - Senate conference committee must resolve differences in the budgets.

Not exact matches

«Generally speaking, our sense is that the final conference committee report is likely to skew toward the Senate's version given the narrower margin in the upper chamber,» Boltansky and Davaz said.

The House on Tuesday voted to pass the version of the tax bill that came out of the bicameral conference committee, appearing to pave the way for the Senate to pass it later in the night.

Nobody ought to mistake this conference for regular debate,» said Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

Republican leaders expect the next step will be a conference committee, where Senate and House Republicans will agree on a final version.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, applauding the Senate's passage of the bill, said the two chambers would move «quickly» to a conference committee.

Since the Senate TCJA is different from the House version of the bill, the legislation must either go to a conference committee — where members from both chambers unify the differing aspects — or the House could pass the Senate bill as it is.

A conference committee of both the House and Senate members has begun work to reconcile the two chambers» differing versions of the TCJA.

«Mark - Up of H.R. 3996, The Temporary Tax Relief Act of 2007 and H.R. 3997, The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Act of 2007,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Representatives, November 1, 2007; «Baucus, Grassley Tackle Alternative Minimum Tax Relief on First Day of 110th Congress,» Press Release, January 4, 2007; «Easing the Family Tax Burden,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, March 8, 2001; «Revenue Proposals and Tax Cuts in the President's Budget,» Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, February 28, 2001; «President's Tax Relief Proposals: Individual Income Tax Rates,» Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, February 13, 2001; Jerry Tempalski, «The Impact of the 2001 Tax Bill on the Individual AMT,» National Tax Association Proceedings: 94th Annual Conference on Taxation, November 10, 2001.

If the House passes their bill and the Senate passes theirs, they'll have to hammer out a version in conference committee that satisfies House leaders while not running afoul of the long - run deficit rule.

If both chambers pass tax bills — which is no certainty — the legislation would be melded together in a so - called conference committee, where the Senate and House proposals would have to face off.

The House and Senate versions differ, so a conference committee of lawmakers will have to work out the differences.

Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Archbishop John R. Roach, speaking on behalf of the bishops conference, held out the prospect of an indiscriminate air war, a conflagration that would spread to the entire Middle East, and a result that might leave «the people of Kuwait, the Middle East, and the world» worse off than if force had not been used.

The press conference was held at the State House by Senator Marc Pacheco, chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change and Senate co-chair of the Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.