Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) have reintroduced a bill “that would allow federal financing for human embryonic stem-cell research,” the New York Times / Reuters reports.
The advocates, Senators Tom Harkin, left, Democrat of Iowa, and Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said their measure would allow federal financing for research using stem cells taken from human embryos left over from fertility treatments. “It is the same bill that both houses of Congress approved in 2007, but was vetoed by President Bush,” they said. Mr. Obama has promised to overturn Mr. Bush’s policy strictly limiting the use of federal money for such research.
You can read more information about the bill’s reintroduction in this press release. It’s called the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act.
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The purpose is to not allow future Presidents to reverse the policy. See
http://www.stem.com/articles/2009/02/policy-embryonic-stem-cell-bill-reintroduced-in-us-senate/