Hoping to get it done before the "audit the fed" bill decends on them. Meanwhile certain politicians are sitting on the audit the fed bill at the behest of feds and/or banks.The US establishment is heavily, and I mean heavily*, pushing for the FED to become super-regulator of the financial sector.
My guess is Shri Bernanke is desparate to invent a new role for the federal reserve beyond just money printing as his job review is coming up in January, 2010.