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Publication Date: February 2003
Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
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Research Area: Government
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A conference committee is composed of a House and a Senate delegation appointed to reconcile the differences between the versions of a measure passed by the two chambers. Congress usually uses a conference committee to resolve such disagreements on the more important, controversial, or complex measures. The members of each chamber’s delegation are known as its conferees or, more formally, “managers.†This fact sheet discusses how House conferees are selected.