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Good news: The House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce will hold an informational hearing on the SAFE Act to end horse slaughter on Thursday, May 26.

🟢 TAKE ACTION: The representatives listed below are members of the full House Energy and Commerce Committee who have not yet signed on as cosponsors of this important bipartisan legislation.

Please call them at (202) 224-3121. Urge them to support the SAFE Act (H.R. 3355) to end horse slaughter and help move the bill out of committee.

Note: If you call a representative other that your own and are asked whether you’re a constituent, please emphasize that you’re calling because the Energy and Commerce Committee controls the fate of a bill that’s important to you and many other Americans.

Frank Pallone (chair), New Jersey;
Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota;
Gus M. Bilirakis, Florida;
Larry Bucshon, Indiana;
Michael C. Burgess, Texas;
G.K. Butterfield, North Carolina;
Earl L. “Buddy” Carter, Georgia;
Dan Crenshaw, Texas;
John Curtis, Utah;
Jeff Duncan, South Carolina;
Neal P. Dunn, Florida;
H. Morgan Griffith, Virginia;
Brett Guthrie, Kentucky;
Richard Hudson, North Carolina;
Bill Johnson, Ohio;
John Joyce, Pennsylvania;
Adam Kinzinger, Illinois;
Debbie Lesko, Arizona;
Billy Long, Missouri;
David B. McKinley, West Virginia;
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington;
Jerry McNerney, California;
Markwayne Mullin, Oklahoma;
Gary J. Palmer, Alabama;
Greg Pence, Indiana;
Bobby Rush, Illinois;
Steve Scalise, Louisiana;
Kurt Schrader, Oregon;
Kim Schreir, Washington;
Fred Upton, Michigan;
Tim Walberg, Michigan.

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About the bill: The SAFE Act (H.R. 3355 in the House, S. 2732 in the Senate) would permanently ban the slaughter of horses in the United States and the export of American horses for slaughter. There are no horse slaughterhouses currently operating inside the United States because of a year-to-year lobbying effort to have language added to spending bills that bars the U.S. Department of Agriculture from hiring horsemeat inspectors. That de facto ban does nothing to stop the export of horses for slaughter, however. Last year, 23,431 American horses were shipped to Mexico or Canada for slaughter.

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