BACKGROUND
H.R. 1018 Amendments
Amendments to H.R. 1018—Restore our American Mustangs Act
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J. II (Natural Resources Committee)
Date: July 17, 2009
111th Congress, 1st Session
The following amendments were made in order for the rule for H.R. 1018. They were considered on the floor early in the day on July 17, 2009.
Rep. Rahall (D-WV) Manager's Amendment: Broadens the types of equine fertility controls authorized in the bill and narrows the definition of prohibited "commercial" uses for wild horses and burros. The amendment would also relax a requirement that the acreage available to wild horses and burros never be less than when the original Act passed in 1971.
Actual Roll Call Vote: 
Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) proposed a substitute that would simply have banned the slaughter of wild horses and burros. It would not have stopped the BLM, however, from rounding up these animals, keeping them in holding pens at a cost of about $20 million annually, and simply euthanizing them. That substitute was defeated by a vote of 348-74 in favor of the more comprehensive approach offered by H.R. 1018!
The Hastings amendment was VOTED DOWN 348 to 74
Final Vote:
Learn more:
http://www.savingamericashorses.org/advocacy.html
http://www.animallawcoalition.com/horse-slaughter/article/693
http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/1/hr1018
http://www.fox17online.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-saving-mustangs,0,4515602.story
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