June 3, 2005

House Challenges Bush's Limits on Embryonic-Stem-Cell Research

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

The simmering debate over stem-cell research got hotter last week as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to overturn President Bush's limitations on federal financing for research on human embryonic stem cells, despite Mr. Bush's threat of a veto.

The margin of victory, 238 to 194, was not large enough to overcome the veto that Mr. Bush has threatened if the U.S. Senate concurs with the House on the measure. But advocates of such research said they hoped the bill's passage would

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