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Red Hot Emergency Alert!!!
Act Now to End the Slaughter of America's Horses Here & Abroad
Strong & Decisive Action Must Be Taken Beginning Monday, December 4, 2006
Massive Public Outpouring Needed to Urge the Senate to Pass S.1915 Before Adjournment
(Which only gives us about two weeks to get this done!)
Monday, December 4, 2006 will mark the day that the U.S. Senate reconvenes for the last time in 2006, giving us approximately two weeks to pass S.1915, the Senate version of The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. The version that passed in the House of Representatives on September 7, 2006, H.R. 503, is already on the Senate calendar. In order for it to be brought to the full Senate before adjournment, a motion must be made to proceed so that it can come to the floor for a vote. If that happens, we believe it will pass easily. Then and only then can it go to President Bush for his signature and take effect in 2007. Failure is not an option here. If this legislation does not pass, America's horses will continue to be brutally slaughtered indefinitely.
Here is the most effective way to take action during this crucial and very critical two-week period beginning on Monday, December 4, 2006:
*** Contact both of your U.S. Senators and ask them to please urge the Senate leadership to deal with this issue before adjournment and allow S.1915 to come to the floor for a vote. That means that your Senators should be talking to Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist (TN), Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid (NV) and Senate Majority Whip, Mitch McConnell (KY).
*** To find the contact information for your two Senators by name or by state, visit www.senate.gov. You will be able to find all of that information, in addition to each Senator's individual web site.
Please contact your two Senators by calling, faxing and emailing if you can. Please keep the pressure on for the next two weeks and urge your family and friends across the country to do the same. Repeat your calls, faxes and emails every day or every couple of days. This is a matter of life and death for America's horses and for our own sense of dignity as Americans. Let's stop this cruel and un-American practice once and for all. We have the votes and we have the will and sentiment of the vast majority of Americans on this issue. It will not be as easy to pass this legislation again in the House of Representatives in 2007 if we fail to bring this to the Senate floor for a vote before adjournment. Please!...Please be unrelenting on this! We are so close to passing this bill. Why should we have to spend the time, energy and money by having to go back to the House yet again when the bill already passed there with 263 votes? There is no reason why this bill should not pass this session and if we all work hard and keep the pressure on, we can make this happen.
*** Call, fax and email the Senate Leadership yourself and let them know your feelings! Please contact:
* Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist (TN): (202) 224-3344; Fax: (202) 228-1264; Email here
* Senate Minority Leader, Harry Reid (NV): (202) 224-3542; Fax: (202) 224-7327; Email here
* Senate Majority Whip, Mitch McConnell (KY): (202) 224-2541; Fax; (202) 224-2499; Email here
In addition, please contact both the Republican & Democratic sponsors of S.1915 and ask them to please work to get this to the floor before adjournment:
* Senator John Ensign (R-NV): (202) 224-6244; Fax: (202) 228-2193; Email here
* Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA): (202) 224-5824; Fax: (202) 224-9735; Email here
(S.1915 currently has 33 co-sponsors. To view the list and read the text of the bill please go to: http://tinyurl.com/yzc43a. If one or both of your Senators are co-sponsors, please ask them to work extra hard to get this bill passed this year.)
In these final two weeks, we have to hope that our leaders in the Senate will respect and respond to the will of the American people and not special interests, as has been the case with this issue for so many years. Since 1998, when the California Equine Council and the Save the Horses campaign made history in California by passing the first state initiative banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption, we have been waiting for a federal ban to pass. It has been eight long years. It does not matter whether S.1915 is passed as a stand-alone bill or as an amendment attached to another bill already moving through the Senate for passage. We are asking our lawmakers to give America's horses about two hours of their time to get this done. We believe that at the very least our horses deserve a small portion of the Senate's valuable time to decide their fate as to whether or not they are going to continue to be slaughtered for human consumption.
*** Finally, an additional and potentially effective strategy in getting this done would be to also contact incoming House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (CA). During the hearings on this legislation in the House of Representatives earlier this year, Congresswoman Pelosi supported and voted for the bill. Please ask her to contact her colleague in the Senate, incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (now the Senate Minority Leader) and ask him to urge outgoing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to bring this bill to the floor for a vote before adjournment. Pelosi has the right to say that the House has already voted on this bill, passed it with 263 voted and consequently, does not want to have to deal with this issue again next year. Also, Pelosi is from California, which as previously mentioned, was the first and only state to pass a historic state initiative banning horse slaughter. Her constituents and the vast majority of California residents are solidly behind this issue, as are most Americans. It would make sense to ask her to get involved this way. We have already contacted her. We ask that you do the same.
Contact Congresswoman and incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at: (202) 225-4965; Fax: (202) 225-8259; Email: sf.nancy@...
(California residents should also urge their U.S Senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein to speak with Pelosi as well. Senator Boxer, in particular, was strongly in favor of the 1998 California Initiative banning horse slaughter. Both Boxer and Feinstein are co-sponsors of S.1915 so they should be urged to work hard for its passage in 2006 given California's unique history with this issue. Contact Barbara Boxer at (202) 224-3553; Fax: (202) 228-2382; Email here. Contact Dianne Feinstein at (202) 224-3841; Fax: (202) 228-3954; Email here.)
*** Please visit Equine Advocates' official web site at www.equineadvocates.org for more information about horse slaughter and other important equine issues.
Let's get this done for America's horses!
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