Dems who voted against the stem cell research bill...16 of them.

[madfloridian]

I have not been paying that much attention today, so this surprised me.

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/01/third-pelosi-bill-passes.html

"Speaker Pelosi is on a roll. Her First 100 Hours Agenda is sailing through Congress with wide bipartisan support. Today the House overwhelmingly "approved a bill that would loosen the restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research imposed by President Bush in 2001, inaugurating the second such assault on the administration's stem cell policy in as many years. Thirty-seven Republicans joined 216 Democrats to pass the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, which would allow federal funding of research on stem cells from embryos slated for destruction at fertility clinics."

"The 16 Democrats who voted against the bill are mostly right-of-center dogs, like Lincoln Davis (TN), Jim Marshall (GA), Gene Taylor (MS-- who actually votes more frequently with Republicans than with Democrats), Mike McIntyre (NC), Collin Peterson (MN), Alan Mollohan (WV), Bart Stupak (MI), Rahm Emanuel's Heath Shuler (NC), Joe Donnelly (IN), Brad Ellsworth (IN), Nick Rahall (WV), and Jerry Costello (IL). Moderates Marcy Kaptur (OH), Daniel Lipinski (IL), Charles Wilson (OH), and James Oberstar (MN) also voted against the bill."

"George Bipartisan Bush has already declared he will veto the bill, which lacks 37 votes to override a presidential veto."

I have seen a lot of those names before. I did not realize they would be against this bill. Surprised me. I remember some of them are with Democrats for Life and some with the groups below, Blue Dogs and New Dems.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/701

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/738