There were 12 lawmakers who did not vote.
The bill would re-approve a program linking bone marrow donors and umbilical cord blood units to patients with leukemia and other diseases. The bill would help thousands of people diagnose leukemia and other diseases by re-authorizing the National Marrow Donor Program and the National Cord Blood Inventory for another five years.
Boebert said in a statement to CNN, “ This bill added hundreds of millions of dollars to the national debt, while it did not get a CBO score or go through the commission process, ” a reference to the Congressional Budget Office’s score, the agency says. including legislators how much legislation will cost.
And Greene, who often makes bizarre claims to seek headlines, claimed that “Nothing in this bill prevents taxpayers from funding broken fetal tissue.”
The program maintains an inventory of cord blood and a bone marrow donor database for matches with patients diagnosed with leukemia and other fatal blood diseases, and is not related to Greene’s fetal tissue argument or Boebert’s argument.
Responding to Greene’s false claims, the National Marrow Donor Program said in a statement, “National Marrow Program (NMDP) / Be The Match does not use fetal tissue / embryonic stem cells for transplantation or research. For over 30 years, NMDP / Be The Match has helped facilitate more than 105,000 transplants for patients battling blood cancer and blood diseases. We only use cells donated voluntarily by an adult donor or cells collected from the umbilical cord, which only happens after full delivery where both mother and baby are healthy and safe. “
There is an accompanying bill in the Senate that is still in committee.
This story has been updated with a statement from the National Marrow Donor Program.