WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After impassioned debate, the House passed a controversial bill Tuesday that would expand public funding for embryonic stem cell research -- a measure President Bush threatened to veto last week.
The vote was 238-194, short of the two-thirds supermajority necessary to override a veto. The measure now goes to the Senate.
The House then overwhelmingly passed a Republican-backed proposal that would use federal money to study stem cells taken from adults and umbilical cord blood, instead of using human embryos.
The vote was 431-1. One Republican voted against the bill, which was supported by Bush.
The first bill passed would extend funding to research on embryonic stem cell lines that were nonexistent in 2001, when Bush limited funding to lines in existence at the time.
Good for them. Praise be on those who voted for this bill. This hostility to science is absurd. We're better than that. Let the President show his true colors with using his first veto ever for this bill.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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