Sentences with phrase «in a conference committee»

The bill had to be heard in a conference committee due to continued opposition by some of the senate members.

The 70 - to - 72 version went nowhere, the 70 - to - 80 version was approved in the House and Senate, but using slightly different language that could not be reconciled in conference committee in time.

Lawmakers on the U.S. Senate education committee and more than a dozen House members met in a conference committee Wednesday to begin reconciling two bills — one a Republican - only measure that barely passed the U.S. House of Representatives in July, and the other a Senate version that cleared the U.S Senate with big, bipartisan support a few days later.

SB566 is still being worked on in conference committee, and will be finalized by the end of the session Wednesday.

The amendment also gave Smith a chance to reach out to House members who will be negotiating the final bill in a conference committee with the U.S. Senate and seek their commitment to trimming social science research at NSF.

Indiana lawmakers are scheduled to discuss a bill in conference committee Monday that would let Ball State University run schools in Muncie.

If there are any differences between the House and Senate bills, either the House would have to pass the Senate plan or the two would need to iron out their differences in a conference committee.

The final bill itself, as printed in the Conference Committee Report runs 185 pages, the last three of which amend a title of the United States Code other than the Internal Revenue Code (which is Title 26).

During negotiations in the conference committee, Katko said he will push GOP leaders to reinstate some popular tax breaks that are on the chopping block, including several that benefit college students and their families.

Both houses came together last week to begin the process of reconciling their budget proposals in conference committees.

Republican lawmakers in conference committee Wednesday announced a tentative agreement on melding the House and Senate versions of tax reform into a final bill.

The House and Senate versions are currently in Conference Committee for debate.

Revisions are needed to the ESEA legislation now in Conference Committee in order to help strengthen the effort to improve schools» capacity to educate all children well by avoiding the dangers of too much testing, unrealistic adequate yearly progress mandates, and unfeasible «corrections» and sanctions.

The language of this bill succeeded as a floor amendment to the Senate version of the first omnibus environment bill (HF888) failed as a floor amendment to the same bill in the House and did not survive in conference committee.

Hensarling said he «enthusiastically» supports the bill currently in conference committee, and believes it will result in economic growth of more than 3 percent.

«The House has previously rejected a similar amendment, which means the issue would have to be resolved in a conference committee as the two sides reconcile their budget proposals in the coming weeks.»

As House and Senate negotiators work in conference committee to reconcile competing overhauls of our federal education law, let's not forget that our nation needs quality testing data to make well - informed decisions about how well all public schools are working for our children.

The ESSA measure, crafted by House and Senate negotiators in a conference committee, gives states more power to set their own accountability standards, testing policies and strategies for turning around struggling schools.

«Now it's time to take the best of both the House and Senate bills, make them even stronger in a conference committee, and finalize one piece of legislation that will dramatically improve the lives of Americans for generations to come,» Brady said.

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 the ride - hailing bills are passed in both houses, the bills will be combined in a conference committee, where differences between the Assembly and Senate bills are streamlined.

Katko, R - Camillus, also voted for the House version of the tax overhaul bill, but has been trying to persuade GOP leaders to make changes in conference committee negotiations with members of the Senate.

The proposal could have been resuscitated in the conference committee process, but negotiators from both chambers were unable to resolve their differences in time.

Lobbyists, Administration officials, and Congressional aides said they expect the most contentious issue in the conference committee to be how strong the measure's provisions requiring states and districts to set educational standards should be, especially any mandate on «opportunity to learn» standards.

If things end up that way, it could «severely weaken [Democratic members»] bargaining leverage in a conference committee with the House.»

But Rep. Marcus Brandon asserted that the LGBT community is not a protected class in North Carolina, prompting the need for a previous amendment that drew on language from federal law, but was stripped in a conference committee.

The ESEA reauthorization proposals adopted by the U.S. House and Senate and now in Conference Committee contain serious problems that make the plans unfeasible and potentially harmful to efforts to improve public schools.

The House plans to pass their budget proposal this week, and both the Senate and the House will convene in conference committees to hammer out a compromise next week.

Without a direct companion bill in the Senate, both chambers agreed Thursday to negotiate a compromise in a conference committee of House and Senate members as part of budget negotiations.

But whether the House's hard - line stance on women's health issues can be mitigated in conference committee remains to be seen.

The differences in the House and Senate bills, if they both pass their respective chambers, would have to be reconciled in a conference committee and approved in a new vote.

Senate and House leaders are expected to begin meeting in conference committees this week to make adjustments to the two - year budget plan.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week to adopt the Senate's budget resolution, rather than support their own budget resolution and iron out the differences in a conference committee.

The Assembly and Senate last month reconciled their proposals in a conference committee and overwhelmingly voted to approve the final version of the bill.

Washington — In a breakthrough that increased the chances that child - care legis lation would be approved before the end of he Congressional session, Senate leaders announced last week they had reached an agreement with the White House on a new version of the bill, which has been bogged down in a conference committee for months.

The language of the Senate file was included in SF723 but it did not survive in conference committee.

There are segments of the tax overhaul from both chambers (the final version of which is still being deliberated on in a conference committee) that have direct and indirect impacts on public schools.

The paper is the first rigorous analysis of who wins and loses under the bill as agreed to in conference committee.

Republican lawmakers this week are expected to meet in conference committees to hash out the differences between the two bills, with the goal of voting on a compromise package by the end of this month.

Some details remain to be worked out in conference committees.

The U.S. Senate and House have now approved similar tax plans and are in conference committees to craft a final bill.

House and Senate members have agreed to meet in a conference committee to reconcile differences in the two separate versions of the bill that passed in each chamber.

The differences in the two bills are being ironed out in a conference committee, and will require both the House and Senate to vote again for final passage that would send the legislation to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.

If the Senate passes its bill, the differences with the House would be reconciled in a conference committee and require a second vote in the House.

The two bills will now be reconciled in a conference committee, and then brought back to the House and Senate for a final vote.

The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is in conference committee.....