But that deadline has now expired, parliament has not convened and nobody knows what comes next.
The Parliament has not convened with all its members since 1996, when fighting between the sides reached its peak.
"In order to change that, we would have to convene a supreme Jewish religious court, which has not convened for the last 2,000 years," he said.
While Mr. Obama has not convened a full-scale meeting on Iraq lately, Mr. Rhodes noted that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who manages Iraq policy, does hold such meetings regularly and keeps Mr. Obama informed.
Mrs. Clinton has been enjoying her first real burst of momentum lately, thanks to her new advertisements and speeches questioning Mr. Obama's abilities in a crisis, raising the fact that he has not convened his Senate subcommittee to hold hearings on the Afghanistan war.
The parliament, which has not convened since 1996 because of factional fighting, is expected to lay the groundwork for a unified government in northern Iraq and to endorse a draft constitution that would formalize a Kurdish federal state based in Kirkuk, whose province holds important oil fields and is now controlled by Saddam Hussein.
Department of Labor Secretary Karin Brownlee has not convened the panel since taking office last year.
He said he was surprised that the government had not convened a meeting of experts to consider the Australia's domestic and international response.
Cleveland is among the few dioceses that have not convened an independent review board, a step that the Catholic bishops agreed to take at their meeting in June in Dallas.
The Albanian government had received a letter two days before the Soviet delegation was to leave Moscow: in it, the Soviets requested that the Albanians approve a statement drawn up by Khrushchev in the name of the Information Bureau even though he had not convened it.
