[Rhodes22-list] P - Washington is going to the dogs!

[Bill Effros]

Brad,

You ain't seen nothin' yet.  These are the provisions people are still 
willing to attach their names to.  When they start dealing in the back 
rooms, Alaska and Montana will have to get more hurricane protection 
money per capita than Texas...

They haven't even bellied up to the trough, yet.

Bill Effros



brad haslett wrote:

>Oh my, it had to happen.  My dog Gracie is pleased
>that we have idiots in Washington.  Does anyone but me
>wonder how much this is going to run the tab up?
>
>Brad
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>ELIZABETH WHITE, Associated Press Writer 
>Thu Sep 22, 1:43 PM ET
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>WASHINGTON - Federal disaster grants to state and
>local governments should be conditioned on how they
>accommodate pets in their evacuation plans, say
>lawmakers disturbed that some Hurricane Katrina
>victims refused to leave home because they couldn't
>take their animals with them. 
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>"I cannot help but wonder how many more people could
>have been saved had they been able to take their
>pets," Rep. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record),
>D-Calif., said Thursday.
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>Lantos and Reps. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and
>Barney Frank, D-Mass., are sponsoring a bill that
>would require that state and local disaster
>preparedness plans required for     Federal Emergency
>Management Agency funding include provisions for
>household pets and service animals.
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>More than 6,000 pets have been saved in Mississippi
>and Louisiana, said Michael Markarian, executive vice
>president of the Humane Society of the United States,
>but tens of thousands more could still be in New
>Orleans alone. Texas, he said, has been better at
>allowing people to take their pets with them ahead of
>Hurricane Rita but a formal policy is still needed.
>
>"We cannot rely on individual acts of compassion,"
>Markarian said.
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>Holly Hazard, executive director of the Doris Day
>Animal League, said there are 4,000 outstanding
>requests to rescue pets more than three weeks after
>Katrina hit.
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>While the legislation may draw attention to the issue,
>it doesn't "have any real meat in it," said Sara
>Spaulding, a spokeswoman for the American Humane
>Association. She said uniform protocols on rescuing
>and sheltering animals, for example, should be
>formulated at the federal level with consultation from
>animal welfare groups.
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