“The legislative process was designed to allow revisions to legislation moving in Congress through regular order and every bill I’ve worked to pass over the past decade has seen changes to secure enactment – just a name change alone passed the PAST Act through the House in 2019,” said Marty Irby, executive director at Animal Wellness Action in Washington, D.C., and a past president of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ & Exhibitors’ Association. The status quo was not acceptable to Joe Tydings.” But he also recognized that the perfect should never be the enemy of the good, and that supporting progress for horse protection was the right thing to do. He knew the measure could have done more. Senator Howard Baker, R-Tenn., to pass the measure and secure the very first law to protect our iconic American equines - whose very backs this country was built upon. “He spoke often about compromise related to the HPA and how he reached across the aisle to the late U.S. Tydings, author of the HPA designed to stamp out soring. “My grandfather spoke often about compromise,” said Ben Tydings Smith, grandson of the late U.S. “In 2017, the USDA Office of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) moved to finalize a rule to strengthen the agency's Horse Protection Act regulations by incorporating some of the major tenets of the PAST Act. "Congress passed the Horse Protection Act more than 50 years ago to end the abuse of soring, but a 2010 audit by USDA's Inspector General found persistent, rampant soring,” said Rep.
Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., the lead sponsor of the PAST Act who represents Memphis, weighed in with the press acknowledging the longtime failure to end soring and failure to finalize regulations, first mentioned in the Federal Register in 1979, that would accomplish two-thirds of the legislation through action by the U.S. AWA executive director Marty Irby, who testified in person before the Committee in 2013 in support of the PAST Act, submitted written testimony last week, including 332 pages of collateral material that provided a history of work on the PAST Act and the issue of soring over the past decade, as well as dozens of letters in support of making revisions to the PAST Act. 693.ĪWA and the Citizens’ Campaign Against Big Lick Animal Cruelty (CCABLAC) developed the strategy to rename the bill and pass the PAST Act in 2019 working together with the Tydings’ family, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Democrat Leader Steny Hoyer, and the bill sponsors. Tydings Memorial Prevent All Soring Tactics Act, H.R. House in July of 2019, the only action the bill has ever seen on the House or Senate floor, renamed the U.S. PAST has been introduced in each Congress since 2012 and would amend the HPA to help end soring – the intentional infliction of pain to Tennessee Walking Horses’ front limbs in order to achieve the artificial high step known as the “Big Lick” that’s prized in small rural parts of Tennessee and Kentucky. Tydings, D-MD, the author of the Horse Protection Act of 1970 (HPA) PAST seeks to amend, weighed in calling for revisions necessary to pass the PAST Act through the U.S.
Animal Wellness Action (AWA), and the family of the late U.S. 5441, and other equine-related legislation. House Committee on Energy and Commerce dove into debate about the treatment of horses in the United States when its Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce convened a hearing on the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act, H.R. Marty Irby, executive director at Animal Wellness ActionNASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, USA, J/ / - Last week, the U.S.
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