The bill is expected to come to the House floor on Tuesday, July 31.
Cloning is a way of producing a genetic twin of an organism, without sexual reproduction.
Cloning human beings poses both ethical and scientific problems. A Presidential Directive prevents the use of federal funds for cloning human beings, but a complete ban on human cloning is needed. H.R. 2505 would prohibit all cloning aimed at creating a new human life. Scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep made 276 attempts before they were successful. Very few cloned animal embryos survive implantation and even fewer make it to birth.