[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15185-15186]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           STEM CELL RESEARCH

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, President Bush issued the first veto of his 
Presidency yesterday, and it was the right thing to do.
  By sustaining that veto last night, after more than a year of 
rhetoric, much of it misleading, we have come down on the side of 
protecting human life. And we have saved the American

[[Page 15186]]

taxpayer from being forced to fund unethical and unsuccessful research 
involving the destruction of human embryos.
  Though a chapter in this debate has now been closed, this issue is 
not going away. As we move forward, I hope we will keep in mind what we 
have learned. The choice doesn't have to be between doing stem cell 
research and not doing stem cell research. There are ethical, life-
affirming methods of doing this research that are producing successful 
treatments today using adult stem cells.
  Let's move forward with stem cell research, Mr. Speaker, but let's do 
it in an ethical way.

                          ____________________