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Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
06/07/2007
Congress to Send President Stem Cell Bill that Offers Hope to Millions
Washington, D.C. – Dozens of patients and their families joined Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Members of Congress today as they enrolled a bill that offers real hope to millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases and conditions by greatly expanding scientists’ access to embryonic stem cell lines. The House passed the bill today after the Senate did so in April.
“Our bill expands research on stem cell lines that would otherwise be discarded, acknowledges the important ethical issues at stake and enacts stronger research guidelines than exist in the President’s current policy. And because we believe that all forms of promising research should move forward, our legislation includes a provision that supports the advancement of alternative forms of stem cell research,” said Reid. “Countless Americans have been diagnosed with cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, Parkinson’s, spinal cord injuries and other diseases since President Bush vetoed this legislation a year ago. Democrats and Republicans did the right thing by passing this bill again, and it is not too late for the President to do the right thing as well.”
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