Number: RS20227
Title: House Conferees: Selection
Authors: Richard S. Beth, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: A conference committee is composed of a House and a Senate delegation appointed to reconcile the differences between House and Senate versions of a measure passed by both. 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.
Pages: 2
Date: December 28, 2006