HR 8870

Early Friday morning, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed a surface transportation reauthorization bill that includes a bipartisan ban on transporting horses for slaughter, according to Chris Heyde, who runs the governmental affairs firm Blue Marble Strategy, and who has long worked on the ban, and Patrick Cummings of the National Thoroughbred Alliance. The Van Drew-Titus amendment to the Build America 250 Act, HR 8870, shares the identical language of the Save America's Forgotten Equines Act--the SAFE Act, which has 229 cosponsors in the House. The bill would...