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Linda - Please pass on to friends, relatives, and/or other interested people. Thanks!
Thursday, July 21, 2005
This is the week that we expected there to be a debate and vote on H.R.
810 the bill to expand federal funding beyond the restrictions
established by President Bush in August 2001. This bill passed the
House and has bi-partisan support in the Senate. The danger was a
threatened veto by the president. Instead we have delaying tactics and
confusion by the offering "alternative" methods of deriving embryonic
stem cells: methods that are untested, unproven and merely
hypothetical.
What does delay mean? For the past four years we have seen the energy
for developing cures through embryonic stem cell research continue
abroad, and be sent to state legislatures for funding. California, New
Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois have all stepped up to the plate. This is
wonderful, but inefficient and time-consuming. The National Institutes
of Health is where the big bucks are for medical research. Until those
coffers are opened wide, the research will take longer to bear fruit.
This is the time to call your Senators and remind them that you don?t
have the luxury of losing more time.
(Copy this address into your browser for Senators? contact info:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm)
Thank you,
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