The cast recently signed rich deals to take them through season seven (should their characters live that long).

"There was a time Johnny Depp would've been a great Morpheus, but now he's too old and it's fine,” the fantasy writer said.

Coburn objected to a section of the bill that creates a licensing program to allow insurance agents to sell across state lines.

The code is being migrated to the GitHub open-source software repository so other developers can tinker with and improve it.

The Canadian government said this would begin as a pilot program and would accept applications starting in January.

The class action suit represented as many as 8 million iPod customers and 500 resellers, and could have cost Apple $1bn.

Passage of the 1,603-page bill was a long struggle in the Senate and the House of Representatives marked by bitter disputes.