DOPA is Dead

Dopa is reborn as DOPA jr...

(from the non explicit although maybe nsfw adult industry news source Xbiz):
http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=19377

While many thought the bill would remain dead after the midterm election results saw a power shift in the capital, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, introduced S.B. 49 at the beginning of the current legislative session. The bill is reported to have identical language to DOPA, with one addition.

Don't be too overjoyed. It's even easier to reintroduce a stalled bill than it is to write a new one. Given the margin that DOPA passed by, and given that a fair number of the new congressfolk are social conservatives, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see DOPA pop up again--but it does seem likely that it would at least get hearings this time around instead of just chugging along the railroad express.
The bill itself is dead; the notion, quite possibly with the same name, seems likely to rise again. Unfortunately.

I'll see that "yippie!" and raise you a "hallelujah!" That is really really good news.

That is VERY cool. Yippie!

As soon as the current term expires, it's dead, and there's pretty much no likelihood the senate will act upon it over the holidays.