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UPDATE: Reps Courtney and DeLauro co-sponsored HR 961 on 10/18/19
218 Co-Sponsors needed to attain a simple majority in the House for passage of HR #961 which would protect American horses from slaughter
The fact that just three of the five Connecticut Representatives have co-sponsored the Safeguard American Food Export Act of 2019, HR #961, was very disturbing. Each of our Representatives, including Rep. Courtney and Rep. Delauro, have supported the Safe Act in previous years. The newest Representative, Joahana Hayes (5th District) co-sponsored earlier this year. In the 115th Congress we achieved a simple majority vote of the House, yet once again the Bill was not moved to the Senate because it was once again held up in the AG Committee. Our goal has been to to get those who co-sponsored in 2018 to do so again as early as possible, and to obtain additional co-sponsors. We had never gotten a simple majority prior to last year. Both Representative Courtney and Representative Delauro have now co-sponsored the Bill. All five US Representatives are now finally on board.
The House bill was introduced at the beginning of the 116th Congress and there has been ample time for them to have done so. H.R. 961 must obtain a simple majority of co-sponsors in the House of Representatives --218-- before it can move to the Senate and ultimately to the President for his signature. Horses, like dogs, are companion animals. They are not food. It is a total misconception that kill buyers are interested in old or sick or lame horses. They get paid by the pound. Camp horses very frequently wind up at auction, as do retired race horses, ponies and pleasure horses. Protected wild horses are transported to slaughter as well. Transport to Canada, Mexico and Japan for slaughter is horrific for the horses. The slaughter process for horses is too excruciatingly cruel and torturous for me to describe here. Let it be said that they are NOT killed and many NOT rendered unconscious before the worst of the process commences. Our companions? You don't have to be a horse owner to know that the slaughter of our horses across our boarders and in Japan is simply wrong.
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