In Congress, a formal meeting of representatives of the House and Senate at which the differences between House and Senate versions of a single piece of legislation or policy are resolved. The members of the House and Senate chosen to conduct the conference are called managers and together form the conference committee. They jointly recommend a compromise version of the legislation, the text of which is the conference report. With the report comes an explanation of how the differences were resolved (the equivalent of a committee report, called the joint statement of managers) which becomes part of the legislative history. Since the compromise version is different from those originally passed, the conference report must be enacted by both the House and Senate before being sent for Presidential signature.