By Rebecca Shabad as published on The Hill
The Face of U.S. Politics
Republicans narrowly blocked an amendment to a spending bill Wednesday that would have defunded inspections of horse slaughter facilities.
The amendment from Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) would have prohibited funding for the inspection of horse slaughter facilities, which would effectively prevent them from operating.
GOP appropriators defeated the proposal in a 24-24 vote during a markup of a bill to fund the Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration.
For the last three years, Farr said the USDA has asked Congress to defund the practice in its budget requests.
“Supporting this amendment does not stop the slaughter of horses,” said Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the bill.
Aderholt argued the practice would just be moved “off-shore” and “out of sight.”
Democrats, however, said the practice is not humane and Congress has previously stated it does not support the slaughter of horses.
In April, Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), Frank Guinta, (R-N.H.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) introduced the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act to ban the killing of horses for human consumption in the U.S.
The bill also would ban the export of live horses to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses, where the animals are killed and shipped overseas.
The U.S. already has a ban in place on the sale of horse meat for human consumption, but it must be reviewed by Congress each year.
Categories: Horse News, Horse Slaughter
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Once again – the naysayers have it! This is so damn wrong….
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So they want balanced budgets with Less Federal Spending? Yet. They pay for the Absolutely Most Unwanted American Horse Cruelty to produce toxic meats in America not consumed by Americans and take money away from other strapped meat industries? Who are these people? Let me guess they met in Roswell next to the crop circles?.
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This is so wrong and beyond ridiculous and should make everyone angry. It’s time to start caring about animals. Saving horses is way overdue!
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They have no moral sense for animals, hardly any for people other than themselves. Balanced budgets? now that is a real joke with the millions spent on the BLM and their so called land management.
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the Koch Bros. must be stopped, millionaire welfare ranchers throwing their money around
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Pretty sorry people who are in the government, they do not listen to what the people want they do as they please, they do not take the horses well being to account.
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You can blame a large part of this on the Quarter Horse Association because I read a article a few weeks ago about the firing up their members to stop any bill that would block horse slaughter. Because that group of over-breeders knows that without some way to dump foals they can’t sell they will go bankrupt. This is what this gang has done for years they will kill or block any bill that is introduced to stop this cruelty. You will notice too that the new anti-horse slaughter bills are still sitting in committee where they generally go to die.
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Here is the breakdown on the vote yesterday thanks to “Ban Horse Slaughter” on
FB. Of course, the Ayes would have defunded inspections of horse slaughter facilities. The Nays want horse slaughter, and want to provide funds to inspect the facilities. SO, if your representative voted NAY, you have the option, of course, of calling him/her and letting them know you won’t vote for them… Senate coming up, but date of vote is unknown…This fight is not over…
The Ayes:
FL 4 Crenshaw, Ander
PA 15 Dent, Charles W.
KS 3 Yoder, Kevin
OH 14 Joyce, David
NV 2 Amodei, Mark
FL 13 Jolly, David
NY 17 Lowey, Nita
OH 9 Kaptur, Marcy
NY 15 Serrano, José E.
CT 3 DeLauro, Rosa L.
NC 4 Price, David
CA 40 Roybal-Allard, Lucille
CA 20 Farr, Sam
PA 2 Fattah, Chaka
GA 2 Bishop Jr., Sanford D.
CA 13 Lee, Barbara
CA 17 Honda, Mike
MN 4 McCollum, Betty
NY 3 Israel, Steve
OH 13 Ryan, Tim
MD 2 Ruppersberger, Dutch
FL 23 Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
ME 1 Pingree, Chellie
IL 5 Quigley, Mike
WA 6 Kilmer, Derek
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The Nays:
KY 5 Rogers, Harold
NJ 11 Frelinghuysen, Rodney
AL 4 Aderholt, Robert
TX 12 Granger, Kay
ID 2 Simpson, Mike
TX 31 Carter, John
CA 42 Calvert, Ken
OK 4 Cole, Tom
FL 25 Diaz-Balart, Mario
GA 14 Graves, Tom
AR 3 Womack, Steve
NE 1 Fortenberry, Jeff
TN 3 Fleischmann, Chuck
WA 3 Herrera Beutler, Jaime
CA 21 Valadao, David
MD 1 Harris, Andy
AL 2 Roby, Martha
UT 2 Stewart, Chris
VA 2 Rigell, Scott
IA 3 Young, David
WV 3 Jenkins, Evan
MS 4 Palazzo, Steven
TX 28 Cuellar, Henry
WV 3 Jenkins, Evan
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Didnt vote:
TX 7 Culberson, John
FL 17 Rooney, Tom
IN 1 Visclosky, Peter
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Thanks for posting this Christy. I wanted to see the names.
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Interesting nobody from my state (CO) voted at all it seems?
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Here we go again. We spend so much energy to stop US horse slaughter that we could spend on eliminating the slaughter of any American horse anywhere.
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This is just horrible that grown men can not stop this slaughter of our horses…our American horses wild and other wise..
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