Horseracing Integity Act

Racehorses are amazing athletes and fans continue to be impressed by their strength, splendor, and speed. Their athleticism should not be compromised by performance enhancing drugs. Human athletes who take performance enhancing substances make a conscious choice to dope, cheat, and win at all costs. Racehorses are at the mercy of their owners and trainers.

Congressman Paul Tonko has introduced the Horseracing Integrity Act, H.R.1754, which goes a long way towards not only protecting horses and jockeys, but restoring a level playing field to an industry that employs nearly 400,000 people.

Weak restrictions and consequences allow cheaters to continue to dope horses and avoid penalties. Each of the 38 state racing commissions allows different medications in varying levels and impose different penalties for violations. This bill will establish a uniform set of rules, testing procedures and penalties, created by the nonprofit U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the same agency that monitors Olympic sports in the United States, to rid racing of unethical drugging of horses. It will also dramatically increase out of competition testing of racehorses and ban race day medication. Such legislation is crucial to protect the animals and jockeys in an industry that has proven it will not regulate itself. she deserves the harshest condemnation. If on the other hand she is simply guilty of language that could be exploited then it deserves a more measured response by him.

The distinction is not trivial. If she is not an anti- Semite then in the interest of unity and civility, he should caution her critics from making intemperate attacks while urging her to show more care in crafting her public statements.

I would urge Mr. Chartock to follow his own dictums and more carefully craft his own language to set an example of how unity can be achieved. to pay union wages. What this means in practical terms is that private developers will be forced to lay off workers and shrink the pool of already-limited jobs here.

The ramifications for local workers are two-fold. Beyond losing access to well-paying construction jobs and the benefits that come along with them, a prevailing wage expansion would also limit local, middleclass families’ access to affordable housing.

Ultimately, expanding prevailing wage requirements would only serve to hike construction costs, reduce job opportunities and hurt workers. paying for live baby parts. I wonder what releases women have to sign at a clinic when they enter for an abortion to provide such parts? The fine print probably includes words that their “products of conception may be used for medical studies.” Translation: Your baby is going to die anyway, why not use the body for research?

I first heard a similar phrase as a youngster when I lived under the Hitler dictatorship. The Nazi doctors justified their gruesome experiments using the same concept with regard to concentration camp inmates. “They are going to die anyway, why not use them for research?” This idea was thoroughly refuted at the Nuremberg trials. The doctors were hanged and buried in unmarked graves at the Landsberg prison. Exactly the same atrocities are happening right now in our country funded by our taxes. Let us not honor the depraved Nazi doctors for their “foresight” by imitating them.

Humanized mice, indeed! But there might be a bright side. Perhaps they will make humans with mouse brains by mistake. We can then send these to Congress to replace the flea brains we have there now.