House And Senate Need To Resolve Differences

The House of Representatives and Senate need to resolve differences because of the Constitution. The U.S. Constitution requires the House and Senate to pass legislation in the exact same form and fashion. Therefore, if there are any discrepancies between the two chambers, they will have to resolve the differences. This process is quite difficult because they have differing rules, processes, and, especially, party control. For example, if the Republicans control the House and the Democrats control the Senate, there will be numerous differences in the “same” bill. However, pass the general disputes, are the technical details that have to be word for word between the House and Senate. Therefore, in order for the House and Senate to pass legislation in the same form and difference, and to resolve differences, they have two procedures: amendments and conference committees.

For example, once a bill finishes in the House, it is then passed to the Senate. The Senate can then agree to the bill or use their judgement to amend it. If they decide to make an amendment, it is in the first degree. The bill will then go back to the House, where the House can agree or amend. If the House chooses to amend, it is a second degree amendment. However, once it is passed back to the Senate, the chamber cannot make another amendment. That would be a third degree amendment and that is against the rules. If the House and Senate cannot agree on an identical bill after a second degree amendment is made, one of the chambers has to recede on their proposal. If neither budges, the bill will most likely