SENATE MUST LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE

My third published letter

Letter: Senators must listen to the people

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Web Posted 12/14/2006 10:41:00 AM

We lost a bitter battle to save American horses this year. Our senate decided not to listen to the concerns of their constituents and our horses are paying the price.

This needs to stop! Congress is supposed to be our voice. Our voice rang loud and clear with the House of Representatives 263-146 vote. The easier part was to get through the Senate and that turned out to be the bill's demise. Why? When the Senate saw the vote in the house, along with our repeatedly daily phone calls and faxes to the senators, that alone should have been enough to decide the vote.

Our political system failed us Americans and is bending over backwards to make European countries rich off of our horses.

Our horses are very desired overseas because they are well taken care of, yet toxins in each of these horses are being overlooked just to make a buck. No American horse should be slaughtered for food. It is unsafe and it is wrong.

Please, Senate, stand up and correct your very big mistake and get a bill out for a vote to stop the slaughter and transport of our horses.

We have spoken. Just look at all the phone calls, emails and faxes in your offices. Stop shutting our voices out. It's not fair; it's un-American!

Sharon Crumb
Phillipsburg, N.J.