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From MSNBC
Bush Would Veto Stem-cell
Bill, Rove Says
Legislation on research funding passed House, likely to pass
Senate
Updated: 1:01 a.m. PT July 11, 2006
DENVER - President Bush will probably issue his first veto if
the Senate approves a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic
stem-cell research, White House aide Karl Rove told a newspaper’s
editorial board.
“The president is emphatic about this,” Rove said
in the meeting Monday, according to a story posted on the Denver
Post’s Web site.
The House has already passed the stem cell legislation, co-sponsored
by Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del.
Rove said he believes the legislation will pass the Senate
with more than 60 votes sometime this month — “and
as a result the president would, as he has previously said emphatically,
veto the Castle bill.”
The Bush administration has allowed federal funding only for
existing lines of embryonic stem cells. Researchers and patients’
groups say that policy hinders vital research.
“We were all an embryo at one point, and we ought to
as a society be very careful about being callous about the wanton
destruction of embryos, of life,” Rove said. He said research
shows “we have far more promise from adult stem cells than
from embryonic stem cells.”
Rove was in Colorado to speak Sunday at an Aspen Institute
forum.
Election preparation
Rove rallied about 400 Republican volunteers at a fundraiser
late Monday in suburban Parker, accusing Democrats of being weak
on Iraq and the economy.
He also attended a fundraiser for major donors at the home
of Larry Richardson in Denver, party chairman Bob Martinez said.
Rove, who helped the state party raise a total of $200,000,
said the major issues in this fall’s election would be the
economy and Iraq. He criticized Democrats for wanting to pull
troops out of Iraq, calling their strategy “cut and run”.
He drew applause when he said the world was a better place
without Saddam Hussein in power. He said anyone who doubts what
the U.S. is fighting for should spend $13.95 to buy a collection
of Osama Bin Laden’s writings.
“We’re in a war with Islamic facists... They want
to reestablish and caliphate, an Islamic empire,” he said.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13810091/
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