[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15183]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PRESIDENTIAL VETO WRONG

  (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, when I voted to override President Bush's 
veto of stem cell research, I was thinking of ex-Governor Booth Gardner 
of Washington State. I saw Governor Gardner in the Sea-Tac Airport 
Monday as I was flying back here. He was flying to San Francisco for 
advanced treatment for Parkinson's, a disease he has been battling for 
some time with great courage and grace.
  And yet this promising research, we have a President who decided he 
is not going to let Americans have because he, from his exalted realm 
on Pennsylvania Avenue, has taken it upon himself to dictate to 
Americans what our morals should be.
  Let me suggest that the President who started the war in Iraq based 
on false information, the President that mishandled Hurricane Katrina 
relief, the President who has created the largest deficit in the 
history of the solar system, is not entitled by any law, religion, 
morality, ethics or common sense to dictate to the American people one 
sense of morality, much less any others.
  It was wrong for him to deny Booth Gardner treatment, it is wrong for 
him to take it away from millions of Americans.

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