The day's proceedings unfolded as the committee worked its way through more than 300 amendments, some of them noncontroversial and others intensely so.

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"There are some noncontroversial-type, good-for-society-type applications we'd consider, " he says.

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What remains to be seen is whether these cloned embryonic stem cells are more useful therapeutically than the noncontroversial induced pluripotent stem cells, and questions linger about their effectiveness.

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It may at first glance appear noncontroversial, even commonsensical.

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He will facilitate it by making it appear noncontroversial.

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As a director, she was peripheral, noncontroversial.

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"So you have this amazing amount of pressure, funneling in to one or two health care bills a year, which means that any one bill, even if it should be noncontroversial, ends up becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, " he says.

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