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is to have the House pass something and then the Senate will look at that, pass their own version (that can make it past cloture), and then the Senate will take their version, and attach it as "an Amendment as a Substitute" to some related House bill that they had that was already passed, will vote on that, and then send it back to the House for debate and vote. The House would often be "whipped" into voting for that version.

Otherwise they haven't even gotten to the point of passing any versions in either chamber without "informal" conferences between chambers for these big bills. I expect I missed some but I think the last time I monitored a Joint Conference Committee was back in 2009 when they were working on the ACA. There were something like 6 subject-matter Committees between the 2 chambers working on parts of that, where the drafts from each Committee were flying (and the media was falsely calling each of those drafts - "the bill" as if they were the "final" version - it drove me absolutely NUTS ). Eventually they needed to pull all the drafts together into a single bill and that needed the Joint Conference Committee.