[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 69 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H3746-H3747]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        ALLOW STEM CELL RESEARCH

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I met with a group of folks who 
are urging the House to allow commonsense, reasonable stem cell, 
embryonic stem cell research to continue. I talked to Dr. Charles 
Murray of the University of Washington Cardiovascular Regenerative 
Biology Center, who told us that this research some day could repair 
damaged hearts.
  I talked to Dr. Tony Blau, a hematologist at the University of 
Washington, who said that they had to put some research on the shelf 
because of these restrictive rules that President

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Bush's administration has placed on this research.
  I talked to Dr. Connie Davis, who works with kidney and liver 
transplantees, who told us about the potential that this research could 
bring for the health of citizens, who said, why can people not make 
their own decisions? When you donate a kidney or you donate embryonic 
cells, she said, it should be the same thing.
  We should pass, tomorrow, a commonsense measure that removes these 
restrictions that put handcuffs on our researchers right now where we 
are falling behind the rest of the country. Folks who have diabetes and 
Parkinson's know what is at stake tomorrow. Let us pass the bill.

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