Roll Call offers this report ($). It includes the following: “Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, is working on a bill to ‘modernize’ the voting system, said Fallon, the committee spokesman. But he declined to provide details on what the bill would include and how closely it would resemble Lofgren’s.”
This of course is exactly what we heard six months ago. I fear that no bill will come out of Congress before 2010, and after 2010 the dynamics of the next presidential race may make passing such a bill more difficult.