Conference committee

A conference committee is a joint committee of a bicameral legislature, which is appointed by, and consists of, members of both chambers to resolve disagreements on a particular bill. While such committees are common in the United States Congress and legislatures in other countries with Presidential Systems, they are no longer in use in the Parliament of the United Kingdom or most other bicameral Westminster system parliaments. A conference committee is usually composed of the senior members of the standing committees of each House that originally considered the legislation. In the United States Congress, a Conference Committee is a temporary panel of House and Senate negotiators, created to resolve differences between the versions of similar House and Senate bills

See also

• United States congressional conference committee
• Joint committee.
• Permanent committee, to represent the chamber in the time between sessions.
• Special committees, to research a comparatively limited subject.

References

• C-SPAN- http://www.c-span.org/guide/congress/glossary/confcomm.htm