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In the NYT today http://www.defconamerica.org/images/downloadables/nyt_stemcell.pdf Thanks Ray for all your advocacy, It's time to ACT Call your Senators Tess On 7/13/06, rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Congress . Washington . stem cells > Posted on: July 12, 2006 7:10 PM, by Nick Anthis > It has been announced that the highly anticipated debate and vote in the > Senate on HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, will take place on > July 17th and 18th (next Monday and Tuesday). This is great news, but > there's a catch. > Although supporters of the bill (i.e. 70% of Americans) have already been > troubled by Bush's continued stubborn insistence on vetoing the bill when it > reaches his desk, there are now worries that HR 810 may not have the 60 > votes it needs to pass, as Michael Stebbins reports at Sex Drugs & DNA. He's > urging his readers to call their Senators' offices to express their support > for HR 810, and he's also asking everyone to contact the following senators, > who are particularly on the fence right now: Robert Byrd (D-WV), Mark Pryor > (D-AR), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Richard Lugar (R-IN), > Christopher Bond (R-MO), and Pete Domenici (R-NM). Contact information for > Senators is available here. > It's time to act, people! This will just take a couple of minutes, and it > could make a huge difference. I know that there has been quite a bit of > reporting here and elsewhere lately on HR 810 and its upcoming vote on it in > the Senate, but there's good reason for all of this--stem cell research in > the US is suffering under the current unscientific restrictions. The ban on > federal funding for embryonic stem cell research needs to end right now by > the passage of HR 810. It has made impressive progress considering its small > but vocal opposition, but it still has a few hurdles left to scale. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn