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June 8, 2005
Thank you for contacting your legislators to urge them to
support the Sweeney-Spratt Agriculture Appropriations Amendment.
The amendment passed the House of Representatives by a vote
of 269-158 earlier today (Wednesday, June 8). This amendment
is effective as of Fiscal Year 2006 (October 1, 2005).
The
successful amendment to the agriculture appropriations bill,
championed by U.S. Representatives John Sweeney (R-NY), John
Spratt (D-SC), Nick Jo Rahall (D-WV), and Ed Whitfield (R-KY),
will halt taxpayer funding of USDA inspections at the three
U.S. horse slaughterhouses as well as border inspections of
slaughter-bound horses. All three slaughterhouses are foreign-owned
companies.
On
May 19, the U.S. House voted to support a similar amendment,
by a vote of 249-159, to ban the slaughter of wild mustangs.
Today's vote protects domestic horses as well, as there is
no justification in slaughtering horses for human consumption
abroad. U.S. Senator John Ensign (R-NV) has pledged to introduce
a bill in the U.S. Senate to outlaw the slaughter of horses
for human consumption.
To
see how your representative voted, see http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll233.xml.
If your Representative voted "Aye," please thank
him or her for protecting our horses, and if your Representative
voted "No," please let him or her know how disappointed
you are.
Information
provided by the Humane Activist Network of The Humane Society
of the United States.
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