The new Democrat-led Congress this week geared for battle against federal financing limits on embryonic stem-cell research set by the White House and its conservative allies on moral grounds.
Democrats, who took control of Congress last Thursday for the first time in 12 years, plan to fire a legislative salvo exactly a week later which they expect will trigger a veto by President George W. Bush.
The legislative offensive comes as news of promising US research in stem cells derived from amniotic fluid offered opponents of embryonic stem-cell research a new argument in their defense of the financing limits.
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