Tuesday, July 18, 2006

bush still staunchly anti-science

Senate stem cell bill to prompt Bush veto
WASHINGTON - Debating science, ethics, morality and humanity, the Senate prepared Tuesday to send a bill expanding federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to an unreceptive President Bush.
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"There has been an upsurge of demand," said Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. "It has crossed every line we could imagine, certainly partisan lines, ethnic, racial, geographic lines."
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It would be the first veto for Bush during his 5 1/2 years in office.

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