1. Call your Senators and ask them to support S.471:
“I urge you to show your support for human embryonic stem cell research by signing onto S.471 which is the Senate Version of H.R. 810. The numerous alternative bills that Senator Frist and others are proposing-adult stem cells, umbilical cord stem cells, and altered nuclear transfer- should be researched IN ADDITION TO and NOT INSTEAD OF embryonic stem Cells.”
Bill Summary & Status for the 109th Congress
This is the Senate Version of the House Bill H.R. 810. Don't let it get watered down by the idea concepts being pushed. This legislation will permit federal financing for research on stem cell colonies, or lines, derived from embryos that are in frozen storage at fertility clinics. Currently, federal financing is limited to studies of those embryonic stem cell lines already in existence on Aug. 9, 2001, when Mr. Bush issued an executive order allowing
S.471
Title: A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.
Sponsor: Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] (introduced 2/28/2005) Cosponsors (40)
Related Bills: H.R.810
Latest Major Action: 2/28/2005
Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
COSPONSORS(40), ALPHABETICAL:
| Sen Akaka, Daniel K. [HI] - 5/18/2005 | Sen Baucus, Max [MT] - 4/25/2005 |
| Sen Bayh, Evan [IN] - 4/25/2005 | Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] - 5/25/2005 |
| Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 3/7/2005 | Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] - 3/9/2005 |
| Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] - 4/11/2005 | Sen Chafee, Lincoln [RI] - 3/4/2005 |
| Sen Hillary Rodham [NY] - 4/11/2005 | Sen Collins, Susan M. [ME] - 3/11/2005 |
| Sen Corzine, Jon S. [NJ] - 3/7/2005 | Sen Dayton, Mark [MN] - 5/18/2005 |
| Sen Dodd, Christopher J.[CT] - 4/5/2005 | Sen Dorgan, Byron L. [ND] - 5/18/2005 |
| Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] - 3/11/2005 | Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] - 5/18/2005 |
| Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] - 2/28/2005 | Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 2/28/2005 |
| Sen Hatch, Orrin G. [UT] - 2/28/2005 | Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] - 3/11/2005 |
| Sen Jeffords, James M. [VT] - 3/11/2005 | Sen Johnson, Tim [SD] - 4/5/2005 |
| Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] - 2/28/2005 | Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 4/11/2005 |
| Sen Kohl, Herb [WI] - 5/9/2005 | Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA] - 5/25/2005 |
| Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ[NJ] - 3/7/2005 | Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] - 6/14/2005 |
| Sen Levin, Carl [MI] - 5/25/2005 | Joseph I. [CT] - 5/12/2005 |
| Sen Lincoln, Blanche L. [AR] - 5/12/2005 | Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] - 5/12/2005 |
| Sen Murray, Patty [WA] - 3/7/2005 | Sen Obama, Barack [IL] - 4/11/2005 |
| Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 6/9/2005 | Sen Reid, Harry [NV] - 6/15/2005 |
| Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] - 5/9/2005 | Sen Smith, Gordon H. [OR] - 2/28/2005 |
| Sen Snowe, Olympia J. [ME] - 5/25/2005 | Sen Stabenow, Debbie [MI] - 6/8/2005 |
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