In doing so, the committee cemented an unwritten rule: A team that’s in the CFP bracket entering December and loses in the ...

Constitutionally, legislation must pass the House and Senate with identical language. Reconciling differences, no matter how minor, in bills from the two bodies must be made. Even though bicameral ...

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 ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The budget conference committee will hash out a compromise of the ...

When the 12-team College Football Playoff was announced, it came with a couple of key goals. Among them was to reframe the focus on conference championships and truly reward teams that reach the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Maryland state lawmakers spent Saturday trying to hammer out differences in legislation passed by the two chambers.Download the WBAL appIn a day of fits and starts, the House opened its Saturday ...

The Senate approved a telecommunications bill Wednesday that puts pressure on the Shumlin administration to move the E-911 board into the Department of Public Safety. If the secretary of the Agency of ...

Many New Jersey children who commit minor crimes for the first time don’t see the inside of a courtroom. Instead, they experience a form of neighborhood justice. Their cases have been moved out of ...