According to Reuters Medical News, with reference to using embryonic stem cells,

"I think it is important for us not to fight with one hand tied behind our back,"

NIH Director Elias Zerhouni told the Senate subcommittee that oversees NIH research funding.

This is not exactly Bush Administration policy, which is interesting to see argued by an appointee who, to a reasonable extent, represents a good deal of thinking in medical research. Zerhouni has more of a constituency than most political appointees.

Much of this was Senate testimony.

"So from my standpoint as the NIH director, it is in the best interest of our scientists, our science, our country that we find ways -- that the nation finds a way -- to allow the science to go full speed on both adult and embryonic stem cell research,"

Remember Bush's first veto affected this area of research.