User:Tobogganoggin/Gordon Smith

In 2003, he voted along party lines to pass the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, legislation which prohibits the controversial intact dilation and extraction procedure. In 2006, he voted to pass another controversial bill, this time crossing party lines to vote for the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. The measure, which would have expanded federal funding of stem cell research to cell lines extracted from embyros discarded during fertility treatment, became the first bill to be vetoed by President George W. Bush. Sen. Smith is one of only 26 Senators (14 Republicans and 12 Democrats) who voted for both measures.