At the time, people were unfamiliar with the concept of a computer password, which required structuring a scene early in the film in which the main character, played by Matthew Broderick, sneaks into his high-school principal's office to check out a piece of paper showing a list of random words.
House Democrats could turn to a quirky parliamentary procedure that would fast-track the process by structuring a vote that would "deem" the Senate version approved at the same time lawmakers agree to bring to the floor a package of fixes to that bill.