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Members of the Iowa House and Senate were scheduled to hold a rare Conference Committee on Monday to reach an agreement on an ...

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 ...

The House of Representatives and the Senate don’t always agree on everything and often disagree on the exact details of a bill. Before a bill can be sent to the president and signed into law, it must ...

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, ...

After weeks of negotiations, several high-profile bills are out of the conference committee – clearing a major hurdle, but ...

Longtime readers may recall all the emphasis placed in this column on the final days of a given legislative session, analogizing the last two weeks to the final minutes of a National Basketball ...

This year’s Permanent Fund Dividend will be exactly $1,000 — the lowest adjusted for inflation since the annual payouts began in 1982, under the compromise state budget for next year approved by a ...

Both the House and Senate have passed their respective tax reform bills, but keep the cork in the champagne. The process has to overcome one more hurdle before it hits the president’s desk: The ...

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 ...