[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 70 (Tuesday, May 24, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H3774]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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URGING SUPPORT FOR H.R. 810, STEM CELL RESEARCH ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2005

  (Mr. BASS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, today we will take up H.R. 810, the stem cell 
research bill; and I agree with the distinguished majority leader. The 
debate that we have today will be about life and death. It will be 
about the lives of many millions of children who have diabetes, who 
want to live a fulfilling life and have hope for finding cures at some 
point in the future, about those who are paralyzed, about those who 
have congenital heart problems, about those who suffer from cancer and 
Alzheimer's and other diseases, debilitating diseases.
  We need to give the scientific community an opportunity to address 
these important issues and to do so in such a fashion that is ethical, 
that has adequate government oversight, that does not allow other 
countries around the world to take over. Indeed, Mr. Speaker, H.R. 810, 
with its 200 cosponsors, will pass today because America wants to find 
cures for these diseases and not leave it to other countries around the 
world.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues in the House to support H.R. 810.

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