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  • noun Plural form of conferree.

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  • I'm curious if -- if you believe the public option, voted down yesterday in your committee, comes back in either the melding of the health bill, and whatever is passed by your committee, or -- or -- as another option, out of the final conference committee bill after the House and Senate conferrees have reconciled the two bill?

    CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009 2009

  • In the presence of personal danger, the conferrees only dared to move that part of their report which advised acceptance of the proffered terms.

    Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens

  • Gallatin now demanded a vote, but the twelve conferrees alone supported him.

    Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens

  • House, as announced by their conferrees -- adding that he agreed with it -- that unless the States should be allowed to conduct their own elections in their own way, free from all Federal interference, they would refuse under their Constitutional right to make appropriations to carry on the Government.

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

  • Mr. Beck of Kentucky, one of the conferrees on the part of the Senate, representing what was then the Democratic minority, but what became at the March session the majority, stated the doctrine of the

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

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