U.S. House Challenges Bush Again on Stem Cells

The U.S. House of Representatives reapproved a bill to expand federal spending for research on human embryonic stem cells last week, but not by a large enough margin to overturn an expected veto by President Bush.

The president vetoed an identical measure last year and vowed last week to do so again. But Democratic leaders viewed last week's move as a way to ratchet up pressure on Mr. Bush to reverse himself, or at least compromise, to accelerate a form of research that many Americans

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