Article I, Section 7 clearly states that bills cannot be
presented to the president for signature unless they have been
approved by both houses of Congress in the same form. If the
House approves the Senate bill in the same legislation by which
it approves changes to the Senate bill, it will fail that
requirement.The actual constitutional text is: "Every Bill which
shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate,
shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of
the United States." No one doubts that the House can consolidate
two bills in a single measure; the question is whether, having
done so, it may then hive the resulting bill into two parts,
treating one part as an enrolled bill ready for presidential
signature and the other part as a House bill ready for
senatorial consideration. That seems inconsistent with the
principle that the president may sign only bills in the exact
form that they have passed both houses. A combination of two
bills is not in "the same form" as either