A final vote could come by the end of next week.
A final vote in Congress may not come until this fall or even next year, he said.
The vote came just hours before the trial was to begin.
A vote in the Senate will probably not come until next week.
But when the vote came, they were on the losing side of a 4-to-3 decision.
A vote on the measure could come at a meeting later this month or in early June.
Commission officials said such a vote could not come before next November.
The vote on that question may come with the rights offering.
A vote should come in the next few weeks, perhaps even before the end of this year's Open, which begins tomorrow.
The vote was 7 to 5, and came after a meeting that lasted 10 hours.