Sam Brownback

I would hope that as we move forward, the overarching views for foreign policy that are not vital and strategic, we look at how we do our compassion and how we present that in a way that can be most empowering to the people.

One is the 12th largest economy in the world; and in the other, a third of its people are living on food aid donations.

I think in looking to the future, vital and strategic is going to include more functions with it, and this is one of the functions of expanding democracy, of getting systems right.

If you would yield for a question, I had the pleasure of serving on the Judiciary Committee last session of Congress, although we didn't get a lot of judges on through and cleared, and we are trying to clear those now. But Miguel Estrada…

I find it so odd that would be a charge brought against him. He worked for the Clinton administration, the Janet Reno Justice Department.

I do think, as well, you have to consider the dignity of each and every person.

It is to address things in the United States, not what is going on in other places.

I think we have got some great opportunities, and we are pushing them.

It is, to me, to try to go where you can be most productive in getting the yield of the cures that you are looking for on injuries, on ALS, all these particular areas.

OK. So your distinction is based strictly upon the physiology of the actual cell, and it is not on any, 'We think there's an important developmental stage, that human life begins after 7 days,' or anything of that nature.

What happens when we focus our research--let us say we put millions of dollars into human cloning because it seems interesting.

If you wanted to solicit information from any of the people that you work with to clarify your answer earlier.

I think that is, you know, a point that there is some concern about, that that could slip to a further period of time.

And the point being that you do not have use embryonic stem cells to get the body to react in a way to build an embryonic-type of growth medium and structure, then.

There is a profound issue here of human dignity, which I know you have written and thought about for a number of years.

This is a cost. This is a deep cost.

And this is the same process that is being used now not only in Dolly, but in cats.

So that that one in nearly 300 is going down to--substantially as people learn more and are able to perfect the technique.

I think that is a good way of putting it.

I think one of the things that has been the big struggle in this debate is the debate about the term.

Thank you for that statement.

That will be entered into the record.

I thank you for your support for a ban on all human cloning and I thank you for allowing me to testify this afternoon.

Those will be submitted to the record without objection.

I commend the leadership of that subcommittee, and particularly the leadership of Senators Specter and Harkin for their long and distinguished record on this issue.