House deletes funding for U.S./Russian Bion experiments

House members voted 244-171 for an amendment deleting $15.5 million from NASA's fiscal 1997 appropriation for a U.S./Russian experiment that has drawn protests from animal rights groups for its planned use of rhesus monkeys in space. In action late Wednesday the House accepted an amendment offered...

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