>The formal signing ceremony, originally expected to take place on Monday December 11 in the Rose Garden at the White House, has been postponed to later in the week.
The passing of the rule means that when lawmakers debate the deal no new amendments will be allowed.
Administration sources said a signing ceremony would take place on Monday, December 11 with President George W Bush signing the bill into law.
Ambassador Sen will meet with the PM and other senior ministers, as well as scientists.
Meetings with nuclear scientists likely.
Rice's concerns were over the bills in their current form. India believed this was a case of 'moving the goal-posts.'
No dilution of language in the House and Senate bills is likely during the House-Senate conference that will meet on the United States-India civilian nuclear agreement when Congress reconvenes this week.
LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, in an annual speech on Monday, said the 2002 ceasefire agreement "defunct" and vowed to resume fighting.
The US said it does not see anything new in the nuclear defence treaties that were signed during the recent visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to Islamabad
The Bush administration has expressed hope that the US Congress will pass a legislation on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal in a manner that would not make radical changes in the historic agreement so that they could "faithfully" implement it.
The White House will soon be presented a number of options on Iraq and one of them from the Pentagon will suggest that the US adopt the 'go big' strategy.
He will be the first Indian American to receive this.
The mediators also praised India's role in the developments in the island nation.
Vijay Mallya, chairman and chief executive officer of Kingfisher Airlines Limited was in Washington, DC on Monday to sign a contract worth $300 million with Pratt & Whitney
Nicholas Burns noted that the Administration had been informed the Senate and House would meet in the early part of December to reconcile both bills.
Bingaman said his amendment was not meant to kill the bill, but to get India to acquiesce to pledges it has made to sign on to the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty.
"We can and will finish that bill before we leave," a confident Senate Majority Leader Leader Bill Frist said.
The organisation has written a letter to President Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying they are supportive of creating equal opportunity for all, but not in reservations.
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