Cheri Bustos on Environment

Sponsored educating humans about spaying, neutering, & adopting pets.

• WHEREAS between 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 cats and dogs are placed into shelters every year and between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 are euthanized;
• WHEREAS the US has suffered a drastic economic crisis that has left animals behind in abandoned homes to die or left on the doorsteps of overpopulated shelters and rescues;
• WHEREAS there are between 4,000 to 6,000 animal shelters throughout the US in need of pet supplies, medical supplies, educational materials about owning a pet, as well as information on how to screen unqualified applicants and provide the best pet match for a family;
• WHEREAS increased knowledge and awareness of animal rescue programs throughout the US will significantly reduce the number of cats and dogs euthanized and reduce the number of animals returned to a shelter who have been rescued;
• WHEREAS a 'National Animal Rescue Day/Winslow's Day' will reduce the problem of pet overpopulation, provide animals with good homes, and create awareness as well as financial and educational resources for the problems animal shelters face each day;
• WHEREAS a 'National Animal Rescue Day/Winslow's Day' would encourage homes for harmless animals like Winslow, a Basset Hound who spent his first 8 months of life st Source: H.RES.63 13-HRes63 on Feb 12, 2013

  Voted YES to require GMO labeling.

  Bustos voted YEA DARK Act

  A BILL to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national disclosure standard for bioengineered foods.

  Cato Institute recommendation on voting YES: President Obama quietly signed legislation requiring special labeling for commercial foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs)--plants and animals with desirable genetic traits that were directly implanted in a laboratory. Most of the foods that humans & animals have consumed for millennia have been genetically modified, by cross-fertilization. Yet the new law targets only the highly precise gene manipulations done in laboratories. Anti-GMO activists oppose the new law because it preempts more rigorous regulation. And that's exactly the goal of this bill, to the frustration of the anti-GMO crowd.

  JustLabelit.org recommendation on voting NO (because not restrictive enough): Senators Roberts (R-KS) and Stabenow (D-MI) introduced a compromise bill that would create a mandatory, national labeling standard for GMO foods. This bill falls short of what consumers expect--a simple at-a-glance disclosure on the package. As written, this compromise might not even apply to ingredients derived from GMO soybeans and GMO sugar beets. We in the consumer rights community have dubbed this the "Deny Americans the Right-to-Know" Act (DARK Act). We need to continue pressing for mandatory GMO labeling on the package.

  Heritage Foundation recommendation on voting NO (because too restrictive): The House should allow [states, at their choice,] to impose [a more] restrictive labeling mandate, but prohibit the state from regulating out-of-state food manufacturers engaged in interstate commerce. Instituting a new, sweeping, federal mandate that isn't based on proven science shouldn't even be an option.

  Legislative outcome: Passed by the Senate on July 7th, passed by the House on July 14th; signed by the President on July 29th

  Source: Supreme Court case 16-S0764 argued on Jun 23, 2016

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