Then the bill in one House gets merged, and the bill in the other House gets merged.
The question now, of course, is what will happen on the legislative side of this issue, whether or not Congress will now - presuming that the president vetoes this bill, the House bill - whether or not Congress will essentially pass another bill that will give General Petraeus the money that presumably he'll need to continue this new security plan.
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.
They are pointing to a bill the House passed that would replace defense cuts with cuts elsewhere in the budget, a bill that Mr. Obama has ignored.
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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No matter, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is whisking the bill through House committees even before CBO has had a chance to score it in detail.
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In the Democratic radio response, Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan), co-sponsor of a bipartisan bill the House will consider following the July 4th recess, accused the president of engaging in a "gross and deliberate misrepresentation" of the facts.
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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.
As to the House-approved spending cuts bill, White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage dismissed the GOP alternative as "nothing more than a dangerous diversion" for eliminating federal funding by negatively impacting millions of seniors, disabled individuals and poor and at-risk children.
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.
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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.
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