President Clinton's Executive Order on human cloning
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/policy/cloning_directive.htm

Cloning Legislation in the US Congress, 2001-2002

• Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 [H.R. 2505] (passed). "Prohibits any person or entity, in or affecting interstate commerce, from knowingly: (1) performing or attempting to perform human cloning; (2) participating in such an attempt; (3) shipping or receiving an embryo produced by human cloning or any product derived from such embryo; or (4) importing such an embryo or product." Sponsored by Rep. Dave Weldon.
  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.02505:
  • Voting roll call
    http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2001&rollnumber=304
  • House report 107-170
    ftp://ftp.loc.gov/pub/thomas/cp107/hr170.txt
    
  • The floor debate can be found in the Congressional Record at page H4916 of the 107th Congress, or by searching for "house floor debate H.R. 2505" on THOMAS
    http://thomas.loc.gov/home/r107query.html
• Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 [S. 790]. "Prohibits any person or entity, in or affecting interstate commerce, from: (1) performing or attempting to perform human cloning; (2) participating in such an attempt; (3) shipping or receiving the product of human cloning; or (4) importing such a product." Similar to H.R. 2505. Sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback.
  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.00790:
• Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 [S. 1758]. "Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit: (1) conducting or attempting to conduct human cloning; (2) shipping the product of nuclear transplantation for the purpose of human cloning in the United States or elsewhere; and (3) using funds made available under Federal law for any such activity." Sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.01758:
  
  

Cloning Legislation in the U.S. Congress, 1998

• Frist/Bond Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 1998 [S.1599]. "Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit any person or entity: (1) in or affecting interstate commerce, from using human somatic cell nuclear transfer technology; and (2) from importing an embryo produced through such technology." Co-sponsored by Sen. Trent Lott.
  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d105:s.01601:
  • Voting roll call, to end the filibuster
    http://www.senate.gov/legislative/vote1052/vote_00010.html
  • The floor debate can be found in the Congressional Record of the 105th Congress beginning at page S444 and scattered through S661, or by searching for "Senate floor debate cloning S. 1601" on THOMAS
    http://thomas.loc.gov/home/r105query.html

Select Congressional Testimony, 2001-2002

• Daniel Callahan, The Hastings Center, (June 7, 2001)
  http://www.house.gov/judiciary/callahan_060701.htm
• Jaydee Hanson, United Methodist Church, (March 28, 2001)
  http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/
  03282001Hearing141/Hanson212print.htm
• Jaydee Hanson, United Methodist Church, (May 2, 2001)
  http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/0502han.PDF
• Andrew Kimbrell, (February 5, 2002)
  http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=147&wit_id=129
• Alexander Morgan Capron, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, University of Southern California Law Center, (June 19, 2001)
• Stuart Newman, New York Medical College, June 20, 2001
  http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/
  06202001Hearing291/Newman453print.htm
• Stuart Newman, New York Medical College, (March 5, 2002)
  http://www.senate.gov/~labor/Hearings-2002/mar2002/030502wit/Newman.pdf
• Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, (June 20, 2001)
  http://energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/
  06202001Hearing291/Norsignian455print.htm
  http://www.house.gov/judiciary/capron_061901.htm
• Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, (March 5, 2002)
  http://www.senate.gov/~labor/Hearings-2002/mar2002/030502wit/Norsigian.pdf

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