Key Votes
HR 4 - Fetal Tissue Research Bill - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Steny Hoyer voted Yea (Passage) on this legislation.
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Legislation - Bill Tabled (House) - March 11, 1993
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (283-131) - March 11, 1993 (Key vote)
Title: Fetal Tissue Research Bill
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that allows for the use of fetal tissue in medical research and appropriates funds to the National Institutes of Health.
Highlights:
- Stipulates that fetal tissue may be used in medical research upon the written consent of a woman who is receiving a "spontaneous or induced abortion"
- $3.2 billion to the National Cancer Institute
- $1.5 billion to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- $100 million to the Office of AIDS Research
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Frederick C. 'Rick' Boucher (VA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Leslie L. Byrne (VA - ) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara-Rose Collins (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Cardiss Collins (IL - D) (Out Of Office)
- Patsy Ann 'Pat' Danner (MO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Julian C. Dixon (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Don Edwards (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Karan English (AZ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Elizabeth Furse (OR - D) (Out Of Office)
- Nancy L. Johnson (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Marcy Kaptur (OH - D)
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard H. Lehman (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln (AR - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marilyn Lloyd (TN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Nita M. Lowey (NY - D)
- Edward J. 'Ed' Markey (MA - D)
- Patsy Takemoto Mink (HI - ) (Out Of Office)
- Susan Molinari (NY - R) (Out Of Office)
- Constance A. Morella (MD - ) (Out Of Office)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC - D)
- Nancy Pelosi (CA - D)
- Bill Richardson (NM - D) (Out Of Office)
- Bernard 'Bernie' Sanders (VT - I) (Out Of Office)
- Lynn Schenk (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Patricia 'Pat' Schroeder (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- Philip R. Sharp (IN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Christopher H. Shays (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Karen Shepherd (UT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter (NY - D)
- Olympia Jean Snowe (ME - R) (Out Of Office)
- Gerry E. Studds (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Al Swift (WA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mike Synar (OK - D) (Out Of Office)
- Edolphus 'Ed' Towns (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jolene Unsoeld (WA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Frederick Stephen 'Fred' Upton (MI - R)
- Maxine Waters (CA - D)
- Lynn C. Woolsey (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ron Wyden (OR - D) (Out Of Office)
