On the recordApril 11, 2007
I intend to take some time this morning, after the Senator from Massachusetts speaks, again to outline the differences in the two bills, why S. 5 is a preferable bill and why that should be the bill we pass and send to the President for his signature and to point out that S. 5 is truly the compromise bill. I want everyone to know that. There was some talk that S. 30 should be the compromise. Let me point out for clarity that last year we passed the stem cell research bill. There was another bill offered on the floor at the same time called the Specter-Santorum bill. That bill was supported by the Bush administration. Both bills passed, but the Specter-Santorum bill never made it through the House, and therefore the President was given the stem cell research bill. He vetoed it. He exercised the only veto of his administration to veto the stem cell bill.
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