Senate to Vote on Expanding Funds for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Associated Press,  FOXNews    
July 18, 2006  Senate to Vote on Expanding Funds for Embryonic Stem Cell Research    

Two related bills on stem cell research were scheduled Tuesday for votes in both the House and Senate including a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) that would encourage study on stem cells derived from sources other than embryos. The other, sponsored by Sens. Santorum and Sam Brownback (R-KS), would ban "fetal farming." U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) said he would support the bill because the affliction is one of many that embryonic stem cell research might eventually cure. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) argued, "Who knows how many human embryos we will have to destroy before any tangible progress is made?"

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Relevant Statements

"I lost a beautiful daughter some years ago to heart disease...I wondered then and I wonder now and I will wonder some long while if there's anything that we could do to unlock the mystery of that devious killer."
Byron Dorgan
North Dakota senator expressed his support for the stem cell bill.

"There are some issues that you just can't get off the national agenda, and this is one of them...It's going to happen with the president's support and it's going to happen without."
Edward Kennedy
Massachussetts senator Kennedy said on the bill that would expand funding of embryonic stem cell research.