11.   As a compromise, the conference committee agreed to allow the president the right to waive that provision within six months.

12.   As a result, Democrats agreed Wednesday to give Republican senators a majority on the conference committee.

13.   As expected, the conference committee late Monday evening formally approved the measure by a voice vote.

14.   As both sides push their agendas and the issue of reform prepares to go to conference committee, we take a look at Isakson and his role.

15.   Ashcroft also points to his work last year on a juvenile-crime bill that remains bottled up in a House-Senate conference committee.

16.   At issue is legislation before a House-Senate conference committee that would overhaul the communications laws from top to bottom.

17.   At that point, even though the House rejected its rendition of gun control, the issue could be resurrected in the conference committee.

18.   At that point, the two bills would have to be reconciled in a conference committee.

19.   At a House-Senate conference committee, the two manage to effectively lift a moratorium on new mining patents, but the House may block their action.

20.   At his insistence, a House-Senate conference committee decided last week to keep the tax break in the law.