NIH Official Faults Bush Stem Cell Funding Limits: Block potential medical breakthroughs

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NYT/Reuters: Official Faults Bush Stem Cell Funding Limits
By REUTERS
Published: January 19, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. National Institutes of Health official said on Friday President George W. Bush's limits on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research have blocked potential medical breakthroughs.

The comments by Story Landis, director of the NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, came as supporters of a bill to lift Bush's restrictions make a push for Senate passage in the coming weeks.

Bush used the only veto of his presidency last July to reject an identical bill and has promised another veto.

Democrats who seized control of Congress in November elections have made its passage a high priority. It cleared the House of Representatives on January 11 by a vote of 253-174, short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto.

Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts asked Landis during a Senate hearing to assess the impact of Bush's restrictions, imposed in August 2001.

"We are missing out on possible breakthroughs,'' Landis responded....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-usa-congress-stemcell.html

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1. whow. He is NOTa former person.