Earlier this week, the Senate announced that its amendments to the Fiscal Year 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations bill should be included in the final version of that bill. The Senate has requested a conference with representative members of the House of Representatives to seek a resolution of differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill.

In preparation, the Senate has announced which Senators will be members of the conference. The House has not yet announced their conferees.

The House version of the Homeland Security Appropriations bill passed on June 24 by a vote of 389 to 37. Included in that version was a two-year reauthorization of the Basic Pilot/E-Verify program.

The Senate version of the bill passed on July 9 by a vote of 84 to 6.