Honorable Bill Frist
United States Senator, Tennessee, Republican
Senator Frist was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. He was a practicing surgeon from 1978 to 1994 and Director of the Vanderbilt Medical Center Heart-Lung Transplant Program from 1986 to 1993. He serves on the Budget Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee (on which he chairs the Subcommittee on African Affairs), and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (on which he chairs the Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety). The following statement is from a July 18, 2001, hearing on Opportunities and Advancements in Stem Cell Research held before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and…
