[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 6933]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           STEM-CELL RESEARCH

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, we will never know how many 
millions of people around the world have suffered debilitating, shorter 
lives from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, and a host of 
other illnesses and diseases as a result of President Bush's decision 
to severely restrict stem-cell research.
  But we do know that human civilization has only progressed when its 
leaders had the courage to resist religious, political and economic 
dogma in pursuit of truth and scientific discovery. Science and medical 
research offers us all an opportunity to reduce human suffering and 
advance human potential. I believe that is God's will.
  President Obama did the right thing in reversing that anti-science 
presidential directive, but now it is up to the Congress to reverse the 
existing Congressional restriction on Federal funding of stem-cell 
research.

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