Harry Reid: “as I said in my statement, the distinguished majority leader said that we would bring this up early in this session. I…”

“as I said in my statement, the distinguished majority leader said that we would bring this up early in this session. I am not critical of its not having already been brought up, even though I would rather have done that than--I hate to bring up the ``A'' word--asbestos. There are other things we could be doing. As I said, I am willing to work with the majority leader. We still have time until we get out of here to set aside some time to do stem cell. We are ready to move forward on stem cell research. As I said when we agreed to pass the cord blood bill, we wanted to keep the cord blood bill and the stem cell bill together. That is what the House did. We agreed to pass the cord blood bill with the understanding that the majority leader would schedule time early this year to consider the House-passed stem cell bill.”