Key Votes
National Key Votes
S 5 - Stem Cell Research Act of 2007 - Key Vote
Barack Obama II voted Yea (Passage) on this legislation.
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Stages
- June 20, 2007 Executive Vetoed
- June 7, 2007 House Bill Passed
- April 11, 2007 Senate Bill Passed
- Jan. 4, 2007 Senate Introduced
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Legislation - Vetoed (Executive) - June 20, 2007
Title: Stem Cell Research Act of 2007
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) - June 7, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Stem Cell Research Act of 2007
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells.
Highlight: -Amends the Public Health Service Act to state that regardless of the date in which stem cells were derived from a human embryo, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall conduct and support embryonic stem cell research (Sec. 2) -Amends the Public Health Service act to establish the following ethical requirements for research: (1) the stem cells have to be derived from human embryos that have been donated to in-vitro fertilization clinics for the purpose of fertility treatments and are deemed in excess of the clinical need for individual treatment, (2) it must be determined that the embryos would never be implanted in a woman, and therefore would be discarded, and (3) the individual who donated the embryos did so without receiving any financial or other inducement to make the donation (Sec. 2). -Amends the Public Health Service Act to state that the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall conduct and support research to develop techniques for isolation, derivation, production, or testing of non-embryonic stem cells that are producing all or almost all cell types in the body (Sec. 3).
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) - April 11, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Stem Cell Research Act of 2007
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells.
Highlight: -Amends the Public Health Service Act to state that regardless of the date in which stem cells were derived from a human embryo, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall conduct and support embryonic stem cell research (Sec. 2) -Amends the Public Health Service act to establish the following ethical requirements for research: (1) the stem cells have to be derived from human embryos that have been donated to in-vitro fertilization clinics for the purpose of fertility treatments and are deemed in excess of the clinical need for individual treatment, (2) it must be determined that the embryos would never be implanted in a woman, and therefore would be discarded, and (3) the individual who donated the embryos did so without receiving any financial or other inducement to make the donation (Sec. 2). -Amends the Public Health Service Act to state that the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall conduct and support research to develop techniques for isolation, derivation, production, or testing of non-embryonic stem cells that are producing all or almost all cell types in the body (Sec. 3).
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - Jan. 4, 2007
Title: Stem Cell Research Act of 2007
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
- Daniel Kahikina Akaka Sr. (HI - D)
- Max S. Baucus (MT - D)
- Jeff Bingaman (NM - D)
- Barbara Boxer (CA - D)
- Sherrod C. Brown (OH - D)
- Maria Cantwell (WA - D)
- Benjamin L. 'Ben' Cardin (MD - D)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Susan M. Collins (ME - R)
- Christopher J. 'Chris' Dodd (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
- Byron L. Dorgan (ND - D) (Out Of Office)
- Richard J. 'Dick' Durbin (IL - D)
- Russell D. 'Russ' Feingold (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dianne Feinstein (CA - D)
- Thomas 'Tom' Harkin (IA - D)
- Orrin G. Hatch (UT - R)
- Daniel K. Inouye (HI - D)
- Timothy Peter 'Tim' Johnson (SD - D)
- Edward M. 'Ted' Kennedy Sr. (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Forbes Kerry (MA - D)
- Herbert H. 'Herb' Kohl (WI - D)
- Frank R. Lautenberg (NJ - D)
- Patrick J. Leahy (VT - D)
- Carl Levin (MI - D)
- Joseph I. 'Joe' Lieberman (CT - I)
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln (AR - D) (Out Of Office)
- Claire McCaskill (MO - D)
- Robert 'Bob' Menendez (NJ - D)
- Barbara A. Mikulski (MD - D)
- Patty Murray (WA - D)
- William Clarence 'Bill' Nelson Sr. (FL - D)
- Barack Hussein Obama II (IL - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Francis 'Jack' Reed (RI - D)
- Bernard 'Bernie' Sanders (VT - I)
- Charles E. 'Chuck' Schumer (NY - D)
- Gordon Harold Smith (OR - R) (Out Of Office)
- Olympia Jean Snowe (ME - R)
- Arlen Specter (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Debbie Ann Stabenow (MI - D)
- Ted Stevens (AK - R) (Out Of Office)
- James H. 'Jim' Webb Jr. (VA - D)
