Wild Horse Nation,
The legislative battle on behalf of wild horses just grew rougher for wild horse advocates.
To recap:
In July, the House Appropriations Committee narrowly voted down an anti-horse slaughter amendment, then approved another that would allow the Bureau of Land Management to kill healthy, unadopted wild horses and ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
Republicans in the House Rules Committee on Wednesday rejected a bipartisan amendment that would have prevented the Bureau of Land Management from killing healthy, unadopted wild horses and burros.
Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, Peter King, R-New York, Jared Polis, D-Colorado, Reps. Carlos Curbelo, R-Florida, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, introduced ... Read More
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday rejected a bipartisan amendment to would have barred the U.S. Department of Agriculture from funding horsemeat inspectors, a move that would have kept horse slaughter from returning to the United States for the first time since 2007.
Reps.Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-California, Ed Royce, R-California, and Earl ... Read More
Return to Freedom is actively lobbying on six bills in Congress: the House and Senate versions of the Agriculture appropriations bill, Interior appropriations bill and SAFE Act. Here’s a guide to where each stands. Key votes are in red.
WILD HORSE BILLS
Context: RTF and other advocates have ... Read More
Recent University of Cincinnati journalism graduate Paloma Ianes spent late spring and summer as an in-residence volunteer at Return to Freedom’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary. She helped with tour and photo safari and helped ensure that workshops ran smoothly, assisted with ranch work, photographed resident horses and burros, created advocacy-related ... Read More
Wild Horse Nation,
In July, the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to let the Bureau of Land Management kill healthy wild horses and burros. The same committee also rejected language to prevent horse slaughter in the U.S.
Yesterday, seven members of ... Read More