How to Use conferee in a Sentence

conferee

noun

• Follow-up task forces were appointed and the conferees agreed to meet again in the summer.
  — Nan Randall, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2018
• House and Senate conferees are finishing a five-year farm bill, and avert your eyes.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
• Our budget conferees and staff are working extra-long hours to bring home the budget.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland.com, 9 July 2019
• House and Senate conferees on the Republican side have agreed on the contours of a final bill needs to be passed by both houses.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• The conference report hasn’t been released, though conferees have said the work requirement is out.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2018
• Faith and Freedom targeted each conferee’s office with hundreds of phone calls.
  — Elizabeth Dias, Time, 15 Dec. 2017
• House-Senate conferees took the Senate deduction to 20% and paired it with an iteration of the House’s idea of a formula for capital.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
• The conference was a failure, but the conferees could have helped themselves by first checking what French courts have to say about those settlements before scoring Israel again.
  — WSJ, 18 Jan. 2017
• The instructions to conferees adopted Wednesday don’t have the weight of legislation.
  — Vivian Salama, WSJ, 11 July 2018
• The budget conferees do not foresee a quick resolution, said Jones, who heads the House’s negotiating team.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2018
• Instead, conferees agreed that for such projects in Virginia, a Project Labor Agreement obliging the hiring of union labor could neither be required nor prohibited.
  — Robert McCartney, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2018
• The House and Senate have procedures that allow conferees latitude in reaching agreements.
  — Anne Cronin, Bloomberg.com, 4 Dec. 2017
• These and other commercial-tax cuts should turbocharge the economy, especially now that conferees very wisely scheduled the corporate-tax cut to begin next month, not January 2019.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 14 Dec. 2017
• An aide confirmed that Scott pushed conferees to continue negotiating throughout the day Thursday, culminating in the deal announced Friday.
  — Emma Dumain and Alex Daugherty, miamiherald, 15 Dec. 2017
• Through it all, week after week, the unflappable Extavour kept the conferees focused on the central issue: Precisely what physical mechanisms originally drove single cells to unite for mutual benefit?
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2013

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