Two local Democratic congressmen yesterday challenged President Bush to go ahead and veto an expansion of federally funded embryonic stem cell research, as he has threatened.
"Bring it on" and face the fallout of public opinion, said U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, who joined Rep. Jay Inslee and several transplant surgeons, doctors and researchers to publicly press for passage of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005.
The bill, which would lift Bush's 2001 ban on federal funding for research of new embryonic stem cell lines, is scheduled for a House vote this week.
"The White House policy has proven to have been a failure," Inslee said yesterday while at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center for the annual meeting of the American Transplant Congress, a surgeons group. "It has put handcuffs on our researchers."
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