Then the bill in one House gets merged, and the bill in the other House gets merged.
After all, one of the amendments on registration requirements that, according to these press reports, is being stripped out of the bill by House Republicans was inserted into the bill by a Senate Republican.
But the bill the House will vote on after it approves that Senate bill will get rid of the deal for Florida.
Despite the overwhelming vote in favor of the bill in both the House and the Senate, none of the top GOP Hill leaders attended the White House bill signing ceremony on Wednesday.
Today's debate brought the Senators closer to large scale immigration reform than they've been in years, but anything the Senate approves must still be reconciled with the House bill and today 71 House members called the Senate proposals fundamentally incompatible with their own.
The Senate passes a bill, the House passes a bill, and they try to merge them together.
The Senate bill, along with the House bill, would outlaw this type of discrimination by eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions.
It wasn't included in the energy bill the House passed in August 2007, either.
The version of the bill the House approved Friday is what the Senate overwhelmingly passed Wednesday night.
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House Bill 1086 passed overwhelmingly in the House by a 185-15 vote and would have required the Public School Employees' Retirement System and State Employees' Retirement System to divest from companies doing business in Iran and Sudan.
Conservative peer Earl of Caithness has put down an motion of regret that the bill is being dealt with as a private member's bill, and points to the draft government bill for House of Lords reform which is currently being discussed by a joint committee.
Grassley responded that his Senate negotiations have yet to produce a bill, but he would oppose the House bill cited by the questioner.
If the committee leaders don't want to entertain the bill, the House speaker can decide to refer the bill to yet another panel, Takeshita said.
"The fact of the matter is that much of this bill before the House tonight could have been a Labour bill of the previous administration, " he said.
Senator TED STEVENS (Republican, Alaska): I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed with immediate consideration of House Bill 5946, which it has received from the House.
The reform bill that passed the Senate this morning, like the House bill, includes the toughest measures ever taken to hold the insurance industry accountable.
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Republicans like former House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois said the bill written by House Democrats expands the children's health program so much that it will substitute government for private coverage.
Moreover, the Senate bill has a lifespan of just two years (whereas the House bill has five), in a deliberate effort to skirt the growing cracks in the funding formula.
And passing a bill in the House that garners only Republican support and passing a bill in the Senate that garners only Democratic support does not achieve that and does not bring you any closer to a resolution.
Never before have you seen a bill pass through the House and then a bill pass through the Senate and where 90 percent of those bills -- those two bills overlap.
The House bill (SOPA) is stalled in the middle of markup by the House Judiciary Committee.
But if you read the history of this act, the legislative history, you can see where the attorney general at the time, Griffin Bell, testified about the bill before the House Intelligence Committee, and what he said was that this bill eliminates the issue of whether a president has an inherent right to do electronic eavesdropping.
Gephardt said he would support an effort by Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Indiana, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, to attach language to an upcoming intelligence authorization bill in the House creating the commission.
Both of those parts of the bill, the no timetable and the increased domestic spending, will be in the House bill and the Senate will vote on it probably Thursday night or Friday.
The White House even fought to the bitter end for a cap-and-trade bill that the House passed and would have imposed higher costs for electric power, transportation, manufacturing and most goods and services as this tax flowed down the energy chain.
While the Republican leadership has held up consideration of the bill in the House of Representatives, a slowdown in the yuan's appreciation could renew efforts to pass the bill.
Then comes the tough part: A House-Senate conference, with the Senate determined to have an at least ostensibly revenue-neutral bill and the House resisting most revenue raisers as tax hikes.
His goal: to get a bill through each house of Congress by the August recess.
U.S. manufacturers get lots of relief, but other cuts are smaller than in the House bill.
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