The America COMPETES Act, originally passed in 2007 to promote science and technology research and education, is up for renewal. It's one of the major projects of the House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, chaired by Bart Gordon. The renewal bill has over 100 co-sponsors, but it still can't seem to get passed.
Last Friday it was brought up for a vote. The minority party in the House has an opportunity to offer a "motion to recommit" a bill to committee before a final vote is taken, and the text (and pretext) of such a motion only have to be made public something like 15 minutes before the vote on the motion. Republican spinmeisters have gotten adept at throwing out motions to recommit that it takes some courage to vote against.