The House is supposed to consider the issue soon afterward, and there could be months of difficult negotiations should the chambers pass different versions.

They set up the government so that nothing could become law without both chambers passing the exact same legislative language.

Sometimes, when one chamber has passed a bill, little was done to secure its passage in the other.

Had the two chambers both passed a measure, it would have been sent to the states.

The lower chamber passed the changes 95-7, while the vote in the upper chamber was 27-0.

Both chambers have passed budget measures that skimp on food safety.

Both chambers passed very different bills to extend the program.

She could not remember time in the chamber ever passing so slowly.

In the end, each chamber passed a competing version of the measure and sent warnings to the other that change would not be tolerated.

House and Senate negotiators agreed on the restrictions after the two chambers passed differing versions of the bill.