Senator Bob Casey to Vote Against Overturning Bush Policy

According to this story, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) will vote against the bill to overturn President Bush's policy that restricts federal funding of ESCR to cell lines created before 8/9/01. (Typically, the story gets it wrong by claiming that the bill would "pave the way for federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research," strongly implying that there currently is none. But as readers of Secondhand Smoke know, in 2005, the NIH gave researchers $50 million for human ESCR.)

If Casey sticks to his guns--and you know that the pressure will be intense to break this campaign promise--the Senate will probably not be able to override President Bush's expected veto. Bottom line: It looks like the status quo will hold--for now.