The House version sets even higher standards than the Senate provision.

The Senate provision does not make a distinction based on where troops are deployed.

The comparable Senate provision applies only to clinical trials of anticancer drugs.

The Senate provision defines gun shows liberally and allows up to three business days for the background checks.

The Senate provision, though, is only an authorization, not an appropriation, leaving it to a future Congress to provide the money.

The conferees dropped a Senate provision on health insurance.

The cable industry is fiercely opposed to this Senate provision.

The bill also drops a Senate provision that allows combat pay to be counted when calculating the child credit.

Three Senate provisions were dropped after sharp protests from groups representing the elderly.

Barring last-minute changes, the bill will also include a Senate provision adding $1.3 billion to improve health care benefits for military reservists.