"We're working with the House and Senate to determine a time frame that will work for both chambers in June and allow us to provide the most thorough testimony".
The program had officially expired at midnight on September 30th, but it was reprieved thanks to bipartisan work in both chambers, especially by Senators John McCain, Jeanne Shaheen, Patrick Leahy, and Lindsey Graham, and by representatives Earl Blumenauer, Democrat of Oregon, and Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, who is an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran.
Cassidy suggested that the solution may be for the House and Senate to pass their separate versions, then have the White House work with both chambers to reconcile the differences.
On current plans, the House of Representatives is supposed to wind up its session on July 31st, while the Senate is scheduled to stay at work one more week.A few weeks ago, it had seemed that his efforts were working, as both chambers were making progress on health legislation.
Once its work is done, both chambers must vote again on the package.
Well, a big part of getting things done is having both chambers work together, not just simply say, 'Oh we did something,' when no result occurs.
Reid suggested that if the House approves a bill on the border crisis, it could be the basis for a so-called conference committee where both chambers work out the details of differing legislation.
But with negotiations stuck in the Senate, lawmakers will almost certainly be here as Republican and Democratic leadership in both chambers work out the details of a bill to keep the government funded.
To align the separate measures, Republicans in both chambers working in a conference committee wrote a new version of the bill that excluded Democrats' concerns.
Both chambers worked to reconcile differences between their respective versions of the bill, and on April 1 , 1994 the last regular day of the legislative session, the Senate passed a compromise bill, but the House killed it on a procedural motion.
