Now that the Moran-Young
amendment has cleared the committee, it is no longer an
amendment but part of the bill. Be sure to thank Bill
Young (R-FL) along with Jim for introducing the
amendment. Of note, is the House bill has further
reduced the inspection budget by $31M
dollars.
Normally, once the house passes
the bill, it moves to the senate but we hear the senate
mark-up on the bill will be tomorrow so the mark-up will
start before the house votes on their bill. The full
committee is scheduled to hear the bill on Thursday. We
do not know if the senate committee will adopt the
President's recommended budget (this contains the
defunding language) or they will draft their own bill.
Your suggested message to the
senate subcommittee and full committee is: Please ensure
the Senate bill contains language to defund horse
inspections or please ensure the senate bill does not
include funding for horse inspections. That's
all!
If the language is included in
the subcommittee mark-up, there is a good chance it will
pass out of the full committee with the language
intact.
Should you become engaged in a
dialog as to why you support this, here are suggested
talking points....
Food safety and wisely using
our tax dollars. It is a waste of US taxpayer
dollars to inspect animals that are not raised or
regulated as food animals. The US should not allow
non-food animals to enter the food chain in the US or in
foreign countries not to mention the possibility of the
recent European meat scandal happening in the US with
our beef supply. With budgets being slashed, our USDA
inspectors should be solely focused on inspecting our
food supply.
Keep in
mind this is a financial bill so that should be the
focus of any communications unless, of course, you are
asked about other issues surrounding food safety and
horse slaughter. If you have any questions or need
information, please visit our website or email us at
e...@equinewelfarealliance.org.
Committee Contact
Info:
I'm not sure who created this
document (thank you!) but I took the information and
added the state, party and noted the subcommittee
members (check mark in the first column). The document
is sorted by state and has two pages - the first page is
phone info and the second page has web information. You
can take the zoom up for the second page as I had to
shrink the print to get it to fit on one
page.
http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/AG.S.AC.pdf
We'll let you know
when the house bill is scheduled for a
vote.
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Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages as we educate
tourists about the inhumane, abusive and unsafe
horse-drawn carriage trade and speak out for the horses.
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