Montana's senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus applauded House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders for answering his call to end a misguided ban on domestic horse slaughter.
House and Senate Appropriations Committees eliminated the ban in the Agriculture Appropriations conference report released yesterday evening.
The conference report is now headed to the full House and Senate floors for consideration this week.
Baucus has long opposed the ban which is proven to cost jobs and harm horse welfare.
"The facts are clear: this ban, however well intentioned, is hurting our horses and shipping much-needed jobs to Canada and Mexico. I applaud our appropriations leaders for considering the evidence and doing the right thing, and I call on all my colleagues in the House and Senate to follow their lead and end this ban once and for all," Baucus said.
The Agriculture Appropriations Conference Report also includes a Continuing Resolution (CR) needed to continue funding the government after the current CR expires this Friday, November 18th.