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The Senate will vote next week on whether the federal government should expand its funding for controversial embryonic stem cell research, loosening restrictions put in place by President Bush in August 2001.
The vote on three proposed pieces of legislation is expected to further fuel an already contentious debate in which many conservative Republicans senators are siding with their more liberal colleagues to expand funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
President Bush, however, has said he intends to veto one of the bills, which allows federal funding for research involving human embyros left over after in-vitro fertilization procedures.
That bill, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, or HR 810, was approved by a 238-194 vote a year ago in the House of Representatives. The bill is expected to have the 60 votes it needs to pass in the Senate, including the support of California senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats.
But many think it is unlikely the measure could get enough support to override the president's veto.
Current federal funding is available only to research on embryonic...
The vote on three proposed pieces of legislation is expected to further fuel an already contentious debate in which many conservative Republicans senators are siding with their more liberal colleagues to expand funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
President Bush, however, has said he intends to veto one of the bills, which allows federal funding for research involving human embyros left over after in-vitro fertilization procedures.
That bill, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, or HR 810, was approved by a 238-194 vote a year ago in the House of Representatives. The bill is expected to have the 60 votes it needs to pass in the Senate, including the support of California senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats.
But many think it is unlikely the measure could get enough support to override the president's veto.
Current federal funding is available only to research on embryonic...