Wild horses captured at the Salt Wells Creek HMA in Wyoming during September 2017. RTF file photo by Steve Paige.
The House Appropriations committee voted 27-25 on Wednesday to reject the Roybal-Allard/Dent horse slaughter defund amendment to the Fiscal Year 2018 Agriculture Appropriations bill.
Because there is no permanent federal ban on horse slaughter, advocates push annually for an amendment barring the U.S. Department of Agriculture from hiring horse meat plans inspectors to effectively keep a ban in place.
Advocates may have another chance to turn back slaughter when the Ag Appropriations Bill goes to the full House for approval in the weeks ahead.
How committee members voted:
“Aye” on the amendment (against slaughter)
Pete Aguilar, California
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., Georgia
Matt Cartwright, Pennsylvania
Katherine M. Clark, Massachusetts
Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut
Charles W. Dent, Pennsylvania
David P. Joyce, Ohio
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Derek Kilmer, Washington
Barbara Lee, California
Nita M. Lowey, New York
Grace Meng, New York
Betty McCollum, Minnesota
Chellie Pingree, Maine
Mark Pocan, Wisconsin
David E. Price, North Carolina
Mike Quigley, Illinois
Thomas J. Rooney, Florida
Lucille Roybal-Allard, California
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland
Tim Ryan, Ohio
José E. Serrano, New York
Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida
Kevin Yoder, Kansas
“No” (in favor of slaughter)
Robert B. Aderholt, Alabama
Mark E. Amodei, Nevada
Ken Calvert, California
John R. Carter, Texas
Tom Cole, Oklahoma
Henry Cuellar, Texas
John Abney Culberson, Texas
Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
Charles J. Fleischmann, Tennessee
Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey
Kay Granger, Texas
Tom Graves, Georgia
Andy Harris, Maryland
Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington
Evan H. Jenkins, West Virginia
John R. Moolenaar, Michigan
Dan Newhouse, Washington
Steven Palazzo, Mississippi
Martha Roby, Alabama
Harold Rogers, Kentucky
Michael K. Simpson, Idaho
Chris Stewart, Utah
Scott Taylor, Virginia
David G. Valadao, California
Steve Womack, Arkansas
David Young, Iowa