Word: vetoing
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...course, is that his targets go willingly. They happily relocate to Singapore's new 2 million-sq.-ft. Biopolis research center, where they can concentrate on one thing they can't always study so easily back home: stem cells. Just last week President George W. Bush used the first veto of his presidency to block a congressional action that would have lifted his 2001 ban on federal funding for most stem-cell research, ensuring that cell lines will remain scarce and money short at research centers lacking the state funding or private wealth to thumb their nose at dollars from...
...Senate's passage today of a bill that would expand federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research will be a short-lived victory for supporters. Bush plans to veto the bill later this week, and the Republican-led House, according to House Majority leader John Boehner, will uphold the veto. The doomed bill is more than just another round of conservative vs. moderate battling in the GOP. It is the latest bet in a high-stakes gamble pitting the Republicans' short-term electoral tactics against their long-term strategy of building a permanent majority...
...stem cells, for example, the tactic is to get the battle over with as soon as possible. The GOP leadership chose the gap between the July 4th and August recesses as a low-visibility moment for the vote and compressed the time the voting would take. Bush's veto, and the expected House failure to override it, will come within days and will soon have been replaced by other issues. "It'll all be over in 72 hours," says one top GOP aide, "It'll be like a summer storm." At least that's the plan...
...Northeastern G.O.P. official said, the issue of stem-cell research could be "a stinker" for the party. "When you're portrayed as arguing against treatment of disease," he admits, "it's a tough place to be politically." Democrats, who overwhelmingly support expanded research, seem happy with the looming veto as a consolation prize; some were already running ads. "It's going to be a symbol of standing in the way of progress," says Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel, whose job it is to get Democrats re-elected. "This is a game changer in a lot of districts." As for patients, present...
...aborted specifically to harvest the tissue for research. ("As far as I am aware," Frist admitted when he announced the bill, "this is not a method currently employed. But it is not out of the realm of possibility.") The part that inspired the promise of Bush's first veto was House Resolution 810, which would allow federal funding for research on any leftover embryos donated by fertility-clinic patients...