The nationwide transition to all-digital broadcast television is still expected to be delayed from next month. The move stopped in the House on Wednesday, but the supporters of the delay expect the measure to pass until next week. Yet, the bill to delay the switch until June 12 didn’t get the two-thirds of the votes after it passed the Senate on a jointly voice vote on Monday.

The House voted 258 to 168 in favor of the delay in spite of the powerful Republican opposition. Rep. Rick Boucher, chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee, stated that it is most likely that they would come back next week.

Yet, the policy of the Democratic and the Republican parties might complicate these attempts to reach another vote next week. The spokesman for Nancy Pelosi House Speaker stated that she was trying to find a way to get another vote as soon as possible.

The Congress has been long urged by President Obama to reschedule the switch due to so many consumers who haven’t had the converter boxes yet. Last week, according to Nielsen Co, more than 6.5 million households in the United States weren’t ready for the switch and could not receive any kind of signals starting next month.

The government program to help pay for the converter boxes ran out of money on January 5. The broadcasters were supposed to stop airing the analog broadcasts on February 17 and the consumers who have an analog television would need a converter box as to be able to watch TV and get the digital signals. In addition, the consumers who have digital televisions, cable or receive their signals through cable won’t lose their programming.