There was no vote this time so no chance to defeat it.

Details and video:
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=236951

However, the choice of witnesses to whom they listened may be
worrisome, and they really cut down the pet industry witness, so
thereis the chance this is being railroaded.

The Representatives on the subcommittee badly want to hear from their
constituents and from other citizens within their own states and
territories. Here are the locations from which they come:
Madeleine Z. Bordallo (Ch)(NP-Guam)
William Cassidy (R-LA)
Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (NP -- American Samoa)
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI)
Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)
Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Henry Brown (R-SC)
Donna M. Christensen (NP-Virgin Islands)
John Fleming (R-LA)
Lois Capps (D-CA)
Diana L. DeGette (D-CO)
Doc Hastings (R-WA)
Dale E. Kildee (D-MI)
Pedro R. Pierluisi (NP-Puerto Rico)
Donald E. Young (R-AK)
Ronald James Kind (D-WI)
Nick Joe Rahall, II (D-WV)
Frank M. Kratovil, Jr. (D-MD)
Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
Douglas L. Lamborn (R-CO)
Robert J. Wittman (R-VA)
Frank J. Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)

Want to send a snail mail letter to any of these people? See:
http://www.pijac.org/files/public/US_HR_669.pdf
and the information in my earlier post.

It is also important that people write to their own Representatives.
See my earlier post for how to get that contact info.

A news story tonight:
http://illinoishomepage.net/content/fulltext/?cid=81272
includes
>If the bill is passed animals such as, lizards, tropical fish,
>hamsters, and ferrets will be illegal to own or sell. They are
>trying to keep people safe from dangerous animals.

Be firm, but BE POLITE!

See earlier posts sent to the FML for information that can be used as
well as useful links.

Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html

[Posted in FML 6312]