The deadline will still be Feb. 17 instead of June, as wanted by the
Obama Administration--and they made a mistake by having the bill put
under suspension of rules, which requires a two-thirds majority to
pass instead of a simple majority, under the view that this would
easily pass--if they gone through the normal channels, it would've
passed on a simple majority:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012801883.html?hpid=topnews
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