This is what we USED to do!
Two separate bodies have different bills and disagreements.
So they go to conference, battle it out, resolve differences and come up with one bill that both houses them pass.
This is called legislating, and it takes work, and votes.
But the Washington crowd has gotten so used to continuing resolutions (i.e. no budgets) then voting once, that they don’t know what to do with regular legislative order.
GO TO CONFERENCE!
What we USED to do was have a Senate of the states (appointed by the legislatures) that respected the House's "power of the purse" to introduce spending bills. The Senate, selected by the statue legislatures, would have gone along with the House's spending bills, because the House was made up of the representatives of the same people who elected their state legislatures.
Today, the Senate operates in opposition to the House and apparently does NOT respect the House's power to introduce spending bills. The Senate often guts unrelated House bills to amend them into Senate sending bills that they force back onto the House to pass (Obamacare was one such bill).
Now, we have a Senate that demands that the House send THEM a spending bill that THEY want. What we have is a broken Senate that is disconnected from their original purpose.
-PJ