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...lifers are using the study in their ongoing war against fetal-cell research of any kind. Says Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas: "Not only are you destroying one human being [the fetus], you may be destroying two." A few scientists called for such operations to be halted immediately, and some nonscientists wondered why they had ever been done in the first place...
Advocates of bankruptcy overhaul outside Congress have argued for years that federal law should be amended so that all Americans are treated alike, no matter where they live. But Congress doesn't see it that way. The reason? States' rights. Says Senator Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican: "What is being attempted here is to take a right away from states that they've had for over a hundred years. It's contrary to states' rights...
...their part to make the bill as simple as possible, so as to give no one an easy excuse. They?ve shorn the bill of its amendments and put it forth as purely a soft-money ban, up or down ? an approach that has apparently won one convert, Sam Brownback of Kansas. But even if another seven relent, Dickerson says the Democrats ?- who have been unanimously and gleefully in support of the bill for years ?- will mysteriously find some reason why it?s no longer palatable...
Later this month Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, one of the more thoughtful conservatives in Congress, is assembling a summit to talk about where to go next. He has invited Thomas, Bennett and Weyrich, who may find inspiration in what Weyrich describes as an outpouring of letters he has received from people telling him of some private charitable initiatives that have gone where no bureaucrat has gone before...
...Later Brownback sounds as if he is wrestling with issues of justice and mercy. "You sit in those hearings, and it's a sad role, but you realize none of us is perfect. There are consequences to actions, but none of us is perfect. If you're in a civil society, you have to dispense justice but also forgiveness...