>>His 1st veto too. I'm quite disappointed about this. There probably isn't enough to over-ride this veto today, but soon there will be.
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>Slowing down technological research in our country.
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>Be assured, stem cell research will continue. We'll see results from this research in our lifetimes. Nobel Prizes will be awarded to the people that find cures based on stem cells. It is just that these technologies, Nobel Prizes, patents and resulting moneys (lots of it) will not be from the USA.

Or they will be, and the research would be paid by taxpayers several times: through Medicare plan D (the non-compete clause), through various ways the parmaceuticals are protected from competition abroad (specially Canada), and through the price of the cure once it's obtained. It just won't belong to the people, it will belong to corporations.