Lawyers seem unsure what would constitute the "blatant" abuse that would bring fast-track arbitration, or what a much-trumpeted new clearing house for trademarks will do.ICANN's failure to keep bids confidential has dented faith in its ability to manage disputes.
The President asked for Congress to approve fast track authority in 2013, but it took two years for fast-track advocates in Congress to even bring fast-track legislation to a vote.
The Democrats' revolt focused on a provision that they would normally back -- something called Trade Adjustment Assistance, or TAA, which would pay to help retrain workers whose jobs get shipped overseas by trade deals -- knowing that killing it would bring fast-track down with it.
But fast wars, apparently, bring fast rapprochement.
After the brutal gang-rape of a Delhi student in December 2012, India toughened its rape laws and brought in fast track courts to try cases quickly.
"We're going to bring before the House of Commons a vote in Parliament to say the government should bring forward fast-track legislation to ensure that we give the regulator...the power to cut prices".
Politicians, initially caught off-guard, have now promised new legislation to bring in fast-track courts and harsher punishments for sexual assault.
Ahead of Tuesday's vote, Brown said he made some 25 calls to members of his caucus, urging them to vote against bringing the fast-track bill to the chamber floor because it did not include commitments on enforcement.
For one thing, the availability and quality of foster care improved along with increased need, said Gretchen Buchenholz, executive director of the Association to Benefit Children, a nonprofit agency that brought two lawsuits intended to fast track "boarder babies," those children born H.I.V.-positive or with crack in their systems, who were left behind in hospitals, into foster care.
Jerome Phelps of Detention Action, the charity that brought the case, said: "The detained fast track is a fundamentally flawed process.
A critical mass of Republicans in Congress may be swinging behind a "Dreamer" law, which would allow unauthorised migrants brought to America as children a fast track to citizenship if they meet certain conditions, such as getting educated.
