George Bush actually said...

This Administration is committed to ensuring a continuous supply of yew bark to help cancer patients, while sustaining the Pacific yew for f...

S. 3114, as reported by the Committee on Armed Services, fails to conform to the President's defense priorities.

This quantity of bark will yield enough taxol to treat more than 12,000 patients.

The potential value of taxol for treating ovarian and other cancers was not known until 1989.