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...researcher Kevin C. Eggan, the project’s principal investigator. Opponents of human embryonic stem cell research criticize studies such as those envisioned by the Harvard and Columbia teams for leading to the destruction of embryos that could develop into human beings. Last year, President George W. Bush vetoed legislation loosening restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It was the first and only veto of Bush’s presidency. One month earlier, then-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney made moves to restrict funding for embryonic research in the state, but current Governor Deval L. Patrick...
...School yesterday. The head of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa’s leading opposition party, Leon criticized the country’s ties to Saddam Hussein’s government during the time the Iraqi dictator was in power, the country’s decision to veto a United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Myanmar, and its policy of “silent diplomacy” in regard to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s “assault on civil liberties” in his country. “[South Africa’s] approach...
...They ought to do it quickly. They ought to get the bill to my desk as quickly as possible, and I'll veto it.' PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, accusing Democrats in Congress of delaying an emergency-funding bill for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Included in the bill are timetables for an Iraq withdrawal, which Bush has refused to consider
...warned that the elderly would be forced to eat dog food if the government shut down. Now President Bush and Republicans warn that troops are at risk of assorted deprivations because Democrats passed House and Senate funding bills tied to withdrawal from Iraq in 2008. Bush is sure to veto them. He's right that without congressional funding, military operations would eventually have to be scaled back. But calamity is not exactly imminent. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service recently found that the Pentagon could finance the war at least through the end of June by shifting existing funds. Then there...
...elected to office next year. Escalating the domestic foreign policy disagreement, both houses of Congress have recently passed an emergency spending bill to finance the war, attaching timetables for withdrawal of most military forces from Iraq in mid-to-late 2008. President Bush, however, has promised to veto the bill, delivering his usual warnings about undermining our soldiers, breaking promises to the Iraqi people, and the possibility of winning the war. We understand the Congressional Democrats’ frustration—the only way to make Bush see the light seems to be to force him to do so through...