Tag: congress

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WCW Announces 6th Annual Congressional Waste Warrior Awards!

WASTE WARRIORS.Striking fear into bureaucrats and white coats nationwide, Waste Warriors are White Coat Waste Project’s secret weapon in the War on Waste — a bipartisan coalition of Representatives and Senators who have helped us find, expose, and defund some of the government’s worst animal experiments. They may not be able to leap tall buildings […]

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EARLY XMAS: Federal Spending Bill Delivers Wins Against Waste in Government Animal Labs

Our 3 million advocates spoke up—with calls, emails, tweets, letters and petitions—and Congress listened! The 2021 federal spending bill, signed into law on December 27, 2020, includes cost-cutting, life-saving measures that WCW worked throughout the year to secure and that take a big bite out of wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments. CUTTING FDA RED TAPE Following […]

· Blog, Transparency

WCW warns against waste in COVID-19 stimulus bills

UPDATE (3/31/20): The COVID-19 stimulus bill signed into law by President Trump includes bipartisan spending oversight measures advocated by WCW and others, including an independent oversight panel led by Inspectors General and a public website reporting how stimulus funds are being spent. WCW is grateful to Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Gary Peters (D-MI)–the chairman […]

· Blog, Transparency

WCW Announces 2019 Congressional “Waste Warrior” Awards

For the fourth consecutive year, White Coat Waste Project is proud to announce the recipients of its Laurie and Carlee McGrath Congressional Waste Warrior Awards. The award recognizes Members of Congress who have demonstrated outstanding leadership to expose and stop $20 billion in wasteful and unnecessary taxpayer-funded animal experiments, an effort supported by a majority […]

· #GiveThemBack, Blog, POW

2019: A Banner Year for Animals and Taxpayers

Thanks to the tireless advocacy and generous support of White Coat Waste Project’s more than 2.5 million supporters, 2019 brought historic victories in our fight to end wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments. Here are our top wins to close out the decade: Following WCW’s exposé and year-long campaign against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “kitten slaughterhouse”–which […]

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Federal spending bill delivers historic wins against dog, cat and primate testing

The final federal spending package for 2020 was just signed into law by President Trump. After more than a year of work with Congressional leaders, White Coat Waste Project and its two-million-plus supporters scored some historic, hard-won wins in the bill that will hold government accountable for wasteful animal tests, save taxpayers money and spare […]

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Philanthropist Louise Linton joins WCW campaign to free lab animals

Animals abused in government labs are lucky to have friends in high places fighting for their freedom.  White Coat Waste Project is proud to count Louise Linton–a consummate filmmaker, actor, philanthropist and humanitarian–among them.  Louise is a tireless advocate for the welfare of animals and humans, and recently founded the Louise Linton Charitable Fund to […]

· #GiveThemBack, Blog

Canines urge Congress to pass Violet’s Law at WCW event

White Coat Waste Project’s bipartisan event on Capitol Hill last night to promote Violet’s Law (aka the AFTER Act) proved once again that dogs are the great unifier.   “Hounds on the Hill” was co-hosted by AFTER Act leaders Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Gary Peters (D-MI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Representatives Brendan Boyle (D-PA) and […]

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Powerful lawmaker challenges NIH on 73% rise in painful primate testing

Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)–a WCW Waste Warrior awardee–made history earlier this year by leading a successful effort with WCW to pass first-ever legislation directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to phase-out wasteful and painful primate testing that’s opposed by most taxpayers. As that bill works it way to the President, Rep. Roybal-Allard is holding […]

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PROGRESS: U.S. House votes to de-fund VA dog testing

UPDATE (6/25/19): Following WCW advocacy and leadership from Reps. Dina Titus (D-NV), Brian Mast (R-FL) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), the full U.S. House of Representatives has passed its 2020 VA spending bill that completely defunds painful dog testing at the agency (see section 247). The Senate will consider the legislation this summer. ORIGINAL POST […]