December
7,
2005
Last
year, more than 90,000 American horses were either killed
at one of three U.S. slaughterhouses for export or shipped
to Canada or Mexico for slaughter.
Congress
approved an amendment to stop horse slaughter starting in
2006, but passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention
Act, S. 1915 and H.R. 503, is needed to permanently prohibit
the transport, possession, purchase, or sale of horses to
be slaughtered for human consumption. Two bills, S. 576 and
H.R. 297, will reinstate protection from slaughter for wild
horses which was stripped at the end of 2004.
Please
contact your elected officials and urge them to support these
important measures to protect horses at the federal level.
Senator
John McCain (R- AZ)
202-224-2235
202-228-2862
http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Contact.Home
Senator Jon Kyl (R- AZ)
202-224-4521
202-224-2207
http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Representative Rick Renzi (R - 01)
202-225-2315
202-226-9739
http://www.house.gov/renzi/email.shtml
Representative Trent Franks (R - 02)
202-225-4576
202-225-6328
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative John B. Shadegg (R - 03)
202-225-3361
202-225-3462
http://www.house.gov/formshadegg/emailtemplate.htm
Representative Ed Pastor (D - 04)
202-225-4065
202-225-1655
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative J. D. Hayworth (R - 05)
202-225-2190
202-225-3263
http://hayworth.house.gov/jdcontent/contact/form.shtml
Representative Jeff Flake (R - 06)
202-225-2635
202-226-4386
jeff.flake@mail.house.gov
Representative Raul Grijalva (D - 07)
202-225-2435
202-225-1541
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative Jim Kolbe (R - 08)
202-225-2542
202-225-0378
http://www.house.gov/kolbe/IMA/issue.htm
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