Stem Cell Vote Delayed to early next year - damnit.

[DanCa]

Subject: Stem-Cell Vote in U.S. Senate Postponed to Early Next Year

Stem-Cell Vote in U.S. Senate Postponed to Early Next Year

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate won't vote on expanding
funding for embryonic stem-cell research until next year, said
Senator Arlen Specter, the legislation's sponsor.

"The majority leader has committed to bringing it up as one of the
first items next year," Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said on
the floor of the Senate this morning. Specter had threatened to attach the legislation -- passed in May by the House -- to the appropriations measure for the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, which the Senate began deliberating today. Specter is chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that has jurisdiction over that spending legislation.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, a
supporter of the legislation, had promised a vote in 2005, though he
opposed attaching the measure to appropriations.

[Fovea]

1. The bright side.

I really want to watch the puggies try to throw red meat to their base over this issue. I predict an obscene pounding from the non-mouth breathing voters.

[DanCa]

2. Here's the link www.stempac.com

www.StemPAC.com/blog/ )

Sorry for the cursing - so many people -like me- need this research that it's just so frustrating.

[dogman]

3. Dan Hynes spoke at our county meeting the other night.

He said this should be a wedge issue for the Dems to use. I had suggested on DU last year that the Dems have a Reagan Stem Cell Research plank last year. I was really pleased that they more or less did that and had RR Jr. speak at the Convention. I think that was another failure post-convention that they did not pound Bushco with it. I was able to get language concerning SCR in our county platform and suggest all Dems who are active in the Party at any level to do the same.

[DanCa]

4. I talked to Hynes as well, Though not recently

He's a good man, that's one thing you gotta say about IL Dems I haven't met one yet that opposes the research.