Barbara Sinclair has posted this draft on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

Although the House and Senate differ in membership composition and internal rules, they nevertheless almost always manage to resolve their differences on legislation that has passed both chambers. The mix of procedures used to resolve inter-chamber differences on major legislation has, however, changed significantly in recent years. These changes, I argue, are the result of the majority party leaderships’ adaptation to changed circumstances; specifically, in their quest to satisfy their members’ legislative goals in an altered political environment, majority party leaders found that they needed to involve themselves in the post-passage process more deeply and frequently and discovered that resolution procedures other than the traditional were often most effective for meeting their objectives. I substantiate my argument by developing and testing hypotheses about the sort of major measures on which one would expect alternative procedures to be used and by examining a number of illuminating examples.

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