posted on July 30, 2005 12:01:57 PM new
O.K. republicans tell me when a FLIP FLOP isn't a FLIP FLOP?
O.K. republicans tell me when was the last time a Senate Majority Leader has broke away from a setting President of his own party?
Updated: 01:19 AM EDT
Frist Breaks With Bush on Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Conservative Christians Blast Change by Senate GOP Leader
By LAURIE KELLMAN, AP
WASHINGTON (July 30) - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist endorsed government-funded research on human embryonic stem cells Friday, breaking with President Bush and the religious conservatives he's been courting for a 2008 presidential bid. He drew praise from former first lady Nancy Reagan.
"It isn't just a matter of faith, it's a matter of science,'' Frist, a heart-lung transplant surgeon, said in a Senate speech. "The president's policy should be modified.''
Bush remained intent on vetoing the House-passed bill that would loosen his 2001 restrictions on funding of research using stem cells from days-old embryos in a search for cures to spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's and other diseases. Frist, a Tennessee Republican, called Bush around dinnertime Thursday to tell him of his decision.
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