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Tom Harkin: “I challenge anyone, any Senator to come and take S. 5 and show me anywhere in there where there is one dime used for the…”

On the recordApril 11, 2007
I challenge anyone, any Senator to come and take S. 5 and show me anywhere in there where there is one dime used for the destruction of embryos. It is not there. I get the feeling that a misrepresentation repeated and repeated somehow seems to take hold so that people say: Well, there must be money for the destruction of embryos in this bill. There is not. That is covered by the Dickey-Wicker amendment which pertains to appropriations bills, and I am an appropriator, and that is covered there. So none of this money is used for the destruction of an embryo. All it is used for is for the research on stem cells that have been derived, which is what is being done today, by the way--which are derived.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the funding provisions of S. 5 related to stem cell research.

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