Stem cell bill vetoed amid political moves: Restrictions on research funding maintained
President Bush exercised the first veto of his presidency to reject a bill that would have expanded federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
The legislation that Bush vetoed July 18 was passed by the Senate on a bipartisan 63-37 vote the day before, and by the House of Representatives in 2005. It would have lifted restrictions imposed by the president in 2001 on U.S. funds for stem cell research.