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Senate poised to pass stem cell bill (Bill passed Senate, Veto next)
MSNBC/AP ^ | 7/18/2006 | AP

Posted on 07/18/2006 2:16:38 PM PDT by tobyhill

WASHINGTON - The White House emphatically renewed President' Bush's threat to veto a bill heading toward Senate passage that would authorize federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, a practice Bush loathes.

"If (the bill) were presented to the president, he would veto the bill," read a fresh official statement of administration policy Monday, with the sentence underlined for emphasis.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; coming; first; georgeallen; hr810; rollcall; stemcells; veto
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To: xrp

Someone set "loose" from a looney bin?


21 posted on 07/19/2006 3:09:01 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: tobyhill

Bush's very first "NO" in six years. There has got to be something special about that.


22 posted on 07/19/2006 3:10:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: ICE-FLYER

The Senate, for a change, AGREES with SEVENTY percent of the American people on the issue of funding embryonic stem cell research. W is making a huge mistake for himself and the GOP if he vetos this bill. When 70 percent of the American people agree on something, it must be the right thing. When a solid majority of the American people have agreed once and for all on anything, they have NEVER been proven wrong. A veto of this bill will be a triumph of mysticism and superstition over rationality; it puts us in the same mindset as the Ragheads.


23 posted on 07/19/2006 5:54:56 AM PDT by katyusha (Those who fail history are doomed to go to summer school)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Normally I would agree. But this is one rare occassion where the Senate does agree with SEVENTY PERCENT of the American people who want embryonic stem cell research funded federally. IMO the thirty percent who are against this research have succumbed to mysticism and superstition. It is sad that a suit-and-tie mujhaedeen have captured much of my Republican Party.


24 posted on 07/19/2006 5:57:32 AM PDT by katyusha (Those who fail history are doomed to go to summer school)
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To: katyusha

70% of Americans couldn't spell embryonic stem cell research, let alone describe what it is or why it is/is not important.


25 posted on 07/19/2006 6:00:37 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: Mr Rogers

I thought elitism and contempt for American public opinion was limited to liberals. Sadly it has infected our movement too.


26 posted on 07/19/2006 6:05:25 AM PDT by katyusha (Those who fail history are doomed to go to summer school)
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To: Mr Rogers

I thought elitism and contempt for American public opinion was limited to liberals. Sadly it has infected our movement too.


27 posted on 07/19/2006 6:06:33 AM PDT by katyusha (Those who fail history are doomed to go to summer school)
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To: katyusha

I have contempt for polls. I also don't spend a lot of time worrying about what the 50+% of Americans who don't vote think.

Fortunately, our government is normally chosen by folks who care enough to at least make the effort to vote - people who are, on average, better informed than the average American.

And polls can find whatever the people who fund them want to find.


28 posted on 07/19/2006 6:11:25 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: Mr Rogers

What if the 70 percent were likely voters?
What if the 70 percent were taxpayers?
One poll does not matter, true. But many polls are consistent on this issue. A veto of this bill is basically spitting in the face of American public opinion.


29 posted on 07/19/2006 6:14:55 AM PDT by katyusha (Those who fail history are doomed to go to summer school)
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To: katyusha

We are a republic, not a democracy.

That is because we aren't supposed to be governed by polls.

Most people, including me, don't have time to study every issue and make informed decisions. That is why we elect representatives.

I don't have an opinion on stem cell research. I don't know squat all about it - but I do know I don't want decisions based on polling data!


30 posted on 07/19/2006 6:19:56 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: The Blitherer

Here is your list of "loosers", and the "tighters" as well.

Democrats Yes--43

Akaka (Hawaii), Baucus (Mont.), Bayh (Ind.), Biden (Del.), Bingaman (N.M.), Boxer (Calif.), Byrd (W.Va.), Cantwell (Wash.), Carper (Del.), Clinton (N.Y.), Conrad (N.D.), Dayton (Minn.), Dodd (Conn.), Dorgan (N.D.), Durbin (Ill.), Feingold (Wis.), Feinstein (Calif.), Harkin (Iowa), Inouye (Hawaii), Johnson (S.D.), Kennedy (Mass.), Kerry (Mass.), Kohl (Wis.), Landrieu (La.), Lautenberg (N.J.), Leahy (Vt.), Levin (Mich.), Lieberman (Conn.), Lincoln (Ark.), Menendez (N.J.), Mikulski (Md.), Murray (Wash.), Nelson (Fla.), Obama (Ill.), Pryor (Ark.), Reed (R.I.), Reid (Nev.), Rockefeller (W.Va.), Salazar (Colo.), Sarbanes (Md.), Schumer (N.Y.), Stabenow (Mich.), Wyden (Ore.)

Democrats No--1

Nelson (Neb.)

Republicans Yes--19

Alexander (Tenn.), Bennett (Utah), Burr (N.C.), Chafee (R.I.), Cochran (Miss.), Collins (Maine), Frist (Tenn.), Gregg (N.H.), Hatch (Utah), Hutchison (Texas), Lott (Miss.), Lugar (Ind.), McCain (Ariz.), Murkowski (Alaska), Smith (Ore.), Snowe (Maine), Specter (Pa.), Stevens (Alaska), Warner (Va.

Republicans No--36

Allard (Colo.), Allen (Va.), Bond (Mo.), Brownback (Kan.), Bunning (Ky.), Burns (Mont.), Chambliss (Ga.), Coburn (Okla.), Coleman (Minn.), Cornyn (Texas), Craig (Idaho), Crapo (Idaho), DeMint (S.C.), DeWine (Ohio), Dole (N.C.), Domenici (N.M.), Ensign (Nev.), Enzi (Wyo.), Graham (S.C.), Grassley (Iowa), Hagel (Neb.), Inhofe (Okla.), Isakson (Ga.), Kyl (Ariz.), Martinez (Fla.), McConnell (Ky.), Roberts (Kan.), Santorum (Pa.), Sessions (Ala.), Shelby (Ala.), Sununu (N.H.), Talent (Mo.), Thomas (Wyo.), Thune (S.D.), Vitter (La.), Voinovich (Ohio)

Others Yes--1

Jeffords (Vt.)


31 posted on 07/19/2006 6:21:25 AM PDT by linda_22003
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To: katyusha

Wrong....Over 70 % agree with how the press has phrased up the argument and issue. There is NO stopping the funding of this by private or commercial means this is just a bill starting the never ending and ever increasing funding by the FEDERAL government and thus you and me by way of TAXATION.


32 posted on 07/19/2006 6:24:45 AM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: linda_22003
Here is your list of "loosers", and the "tighters" as well.

Lol. Thank you!

33 posted on 07/19/2006 12:27:00 PM PDT by The Blitherer ("I left orders to be awakened at any time...even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." -Ronald Reagan)
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