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I think this is a good, fair rule. It allows an honest debate of the issues. As many of my colleagues know, I am a physician. I still see patients once a month at the veterans clinic in my congressional district, and I practiced medicine…
I want to get at this issue of eggs and how are you going to get them. The gentleman from Pennsylvania has implied that my concerns about women's donation are unfounded. Let me just underscore from the start that there are a lot of people…
This is a very confusing quote because it really mixes two issues. It starts out saying cloning is a widely used, vital medical tool that has allowed scientists and researchers to develop powerful new drugs. What they are talking about is…
They are trying to call embryo cloning somatic cell nuclear transfer, and the reason they are trying to do that, scientifically that is what it is, but the overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to all forms of human cloning. It is…
Actually, I do not know if the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Greenwood) is going to change his language before it comes to the floor, but the language as I last saw it, it is not actually a ban. It is a moratorium. It is a 10-year…
This is clearly a line in the sand. It is a demarcation point; and if we go across that line, if we say we are going to start creating human lives for the purpose of exploiting them for scientific research and then discarding them, where…
Here again what they are trying to do is change the terminology. They have been losing the debate on this issue with the hearts and minds of the American people, so they are now trying to call it somatic cell nuclear transfer rather than…
on January 16, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia and her crew, Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, Specialist Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon, rocketed off launch pad 39 A, the same…
I rise to recognize Crosswinds Youth Services, a nonprofit organization in my congressional district that has served Florida's Space Coast for the past 28 years. Yesterday, February 10, Crosswinds Youth Services received the prestigious…
I just want to touch on a very, very important issue and that is defensive medicine, the incorrect costs of liability on the practice of medicine in the United States. Now, I practiced medicine for 15 years prior to being elected. I still…
It has been fascinating to listen to the debate on the other side on this bill. This issue began in 1996 when some of the residency training programs were moving in a direction to require that to be certified and eligible to obtain one's…
I believe very strongly all we are trying to do in this bill is to just clarify the intent of the Congress 6 years ago when it originally passed this conscience clause language, and it is the left, it is the pro-abortion left that is…
I just want to state the case of Fidelis Health Care of New York. This is a Catholic archdiocese of New York cooperative managed health care plan. Immediately after it was started, Family Planning Advocates of New York, FPA they are…
I rise in support of this underlying rule and in support of the underlying bill. This is the first full week of school in many areas of our country. In Florida, where I come from, they went back into school in August, but for millions of…
on this first year anniversary, I extend my deepest sympathies to the families of the countless number of innocent victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and in a desolate field in…
Mr. Chairman, this body passed a bill creating a large bureaucracy to protect our airline security, so the argument that was just made, as far as I am concerned, is not really valid, particularly when you look at the fact that I do not…
Mr. Chairman, why are we passing this bill? Why are we creating this Department of Homeland Security? As I see it, we are doing it because if we are ever attacked again, we want to be able to respond better; but more importantly, we never…
as a physician, I find the practice of partial-birth abortion extremely disturbing. This is a gruesome practice where the abortionist delivers the entire child except the head. The head is left in the mother's womb until the abortionist…
I just want to raise a couple of points in response to some of the statements my friend from Ohio made but really just one in particular and, that is, as it relates to the Blue Cross/Blue Shield systems complying with the cost accounting…
Our homeland security starts abroad, and nothing is more important than who gets issued a visa. The issuance of visas can no longer be thought of as a mere diplomatic function. It is now a national security issue, and must be our first…
Adult stem cells have been used in over 45 human clinical trials to treat human beings. Embryo stem cells have never been used successfully in any human clinical trial. Indeed, embryo stem cells have not really been used successfully in…
The Nuremberg Code emerged in the aftermath of the atrocities committed by many physicians who were acting complicitly with the Nazis. A great deal of scientific information was obtained from some of that research; for example, how long…
many liberals voted for the cloning ban. I thought that was one of the unique features that emerged from the debate on human cloning here in the House of Representatives. We had people of very, very divergent opinion. We had some Christian…
I want to thank him for the support and assistance provided me and all of the others involved in passing the ban on human cloning out of the House of Representatives. The gentleman's involvement was extremely helpful. I also want to thank…
I thank the gentleman; and I just want to add, under President Clinton, he established the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and they said, The commission began its discussions of cloning, fully recognizing that any efforts, any…
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