Senate to Consider Stem Cell Proposals
Fertility Patients Could Donate Embryos
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 30, 2006; Page A05
Senate leaders from both parties agreed yesterday to schedule a vote on a package of bills that would loosen President Bush's five-year-old restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research.
With head counts suggesting there are enough votes to pass the legislation and with Bush having promised he would veto it, yesterday's action sets the stage for what could be the first full-blown showdown between the chamber and the president.
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