Degette Responds to the State of the Union

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Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), chief architect of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, today offered the following response to President George W. Bush's State of the Union address:

"I am glad that President Bush has recognized the recent advances in stem cell research. This again highlights the need for a new, national initiative supporting all types of ethical cell based research, including embryonic stem cell research. We must establish a robust national stem cell research program with a strict ethical framework.

"I find it cynical that the President would call on Congress to ban reproductive cloning when it was his Republican colleagues that defeated my bill last year that did just that."

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