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On the House side, there may be 60 or 70 conferees.

"Senate conferees feel we can still get a bill if the House wants one."

The conferees have not decided which of the three would be the chairman.

In fact, the House has not even appointed its conferees.

House conferees should follow the Senate's lead on both issues.

There are few limits on what the conferees can do.

On other issues, the conferees were able to come to agreement much more easily.

The conferees finally reached agreement on a plan in the early morning hours of 22 May.

The conferees must decide first the size of the gas tax.

House and Senate conferees reached their compromise two weeks ago.

"Now we're going to have to sell it to our conferees."

It could hardly be otherwise, since 200 members of Congress are conferees on the bill.

If the conferees were trying to distract the public's attention, they failed.

It is not clear whether this particular provision will be kept in the bill by the conferees.

The conferees restricted this part of the bill as passed by the Senate.

House and Senate conferees will now meet to resolve the differences.

The conferees will resume work on the trade bill Wednesday.

Those may be important questions, but more than one budget conferee asked why the lawmakers had to consider them now.

Taking his seat in the hearing room he said to the conferees, "We've really come a long way, but we're not quite there."

House and Senate conferees will have the last chance to amend the bill.

But conferees argued that the potential for problems existed now, with current systems.

Of the 45 Soviet conferees, for only 5 had the security restrictions been lifted.

But the House conferees refused to begin negotiations on the compromise.

The budget framework now being developed by farm bill conferees does not do this.

He has, in short, refused to ask his conferees to return from vacation to work out an agreement with the House.