The Senate is primed and ready for what will likely be an intense debate on the issue of embryonic stem cell research and has already approved a bill that would overturn President Bush’s limits of using taxpayer dollars to fund the research and the Senate could vote in May or June before it has its summer recess.
The pair told McClatchy Newspapers they think they have enough votes to get their legislation approved. He’s prepared to go ahead,” Specter said. He has to bring it up, or we’ll bring it up.”
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