House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) composed a letter indicating he will allow a two-month extension for the September 11 commision to file their report, currently due on May 27. If this satisfies Senators McCain (R-Arizona) and Lieberman (D-Connecticut), they presumably would drop their hold on the temporary extension of the existing transit law.

McCain and Lieberman held up the law to ask for an additional two months for both the report and the dissolution of the commission. Hastert appears to only be supporting an extension in the report deadline, but not for an extension of the date the commission is dissolved (July 26).