An enthusiastic welcome to everyone visiting H.R. 1475, the Federal Prison Work Incentive Act of 2009 this week.
By your numbers, you have toppled the equine cruelty issue from the top of the “active bills” list. Bills float to the top of this list based on the number of visits, and the horse people have kept [...]
With a full-time job and something of a life, I don’t read all the comments that go up on WashingtonWatch.com. I sometimes follow along some conversations, but generally you people are adults and can fend for yourselves.
With a high number of high-intensity comments on certain bill pages, we’ve been working on revamping the comment system [...]
The activity on H.R. 503, the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act, has gotten to be too much for our servers.
Our bad: We’ve had our bill pages set to display all comments and, with 2,000+ comments, each hit on the bill page requires us to serve a huuuuge amount of data. It was [...]
Horses are one of the site’s most passionate subjects, as illustrated by this discussion.
Here’s a new bill: H.R. 503, which would prohibit “certain conduct” relating to the use of horses for human consumption.
The text of the bill isn’t available yet, but it may be the same as the bills with the same number in the [...]
An issue that has always generated passions here on the site is animal cruelty, specifically with regard to horses. The new Congress has already seen some horse protection legislation introduced.
H.R. 305 would prohibit the transportation of horses in interstate transportation in a motor vehicle containing 2 or more levels stacked on top of one [...]
If you want to see a controversial bill on which there are strong opinions on both sides, check out H.R. 6598, The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008.
The proponents of the bill (opponents of horse slaughter) feel very passionately about the cruelty to the animals that may occur during slaughter, and many feel [...]
The animal cruelty bills I wrote about late last week will get a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on Wednesday.
Very little information is available on the Committee’s Web page about the hearing yet. But it’ll show up sometime before 9:30 a.m. Wednesday – or [...]
Nothing makes the passions rise like animal consumption and cruelty, particularly with respect to horses. In fact, a bill to prohibit slaughter of horses for human consumption is one of the most commented upon here on WashingtonWatch.com.
So I’ll be interested to watch the latest in anti-horse-slaughter legislation. H.R. 6598, the Prevention of [...]