Editing Darrell Issa (section)

=== Science ===
Issa supports embryonic [[stem cell]] research and has voted to allow it.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gaouette|first1=Nicole|title=Stem cell study funds pass House|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-12-na-stemcell12-story.html|access-date=November 1, 2016|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=January 12, 2007}}</ref>

He co-sponsored both the 2008 and 2009 versions of the [[Fair Copyright in Research Works Act]] and sponsored the [[Research Works Act]] ({{USBill|112|H.R.|3699}}) introduced in 2011, all of which aim at a reversal of the [[NIH]]'s Public Access Policy,<ref name="rosen">{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/01/why-is-open-internet-champion-darrell-issa-supporting-an-attack-on-open-science/250929|title=Why Is Open-Internet Champion Darrell Issa Supporting an Attack on Open Science?|last=Rosen|first=Rebecca J.|date=January 5, 2012|publisher=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref> which [[open access mandate|mandates]] [[open access]] to NIH-funded research.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2008|title=An open access mandate for the National Institutes of Health |journal=[[Open Medicine (John Willinsky)|Open Medicine]]|volume=2|issue=2|pages=39–41|pmc=3090178|pmid=21602938 |last1=Suber |first1=Peter|author-link=Peter Suber}}</ref>