On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to defund painful experiments on dogs at the Department of Veterans Affairs that were exposed by WCW. But, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon this morning, we won a second victory on Capitol Hill this week as well. Inside the House-passed defense spending package […]
Just two days after yet another Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) whistleblower came forward with evidence of dog abuse and waste in a VA dog laboratory, Congress has unanimously passed a WCW-supported bipartisan amendment that defunds painful taxpayer-funded dog experiments at the VA. The amendment is part of a federal spending package that is expected to pass the […]
A brave Iraq war veteran who works at the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia has come forward with disturbing new details about the facility where more than 100 dogs are “set to die” in abusive and wasteful forced heart attack experiments and other painful cardiac studies first exposed by WCW […]
Following White Coat Waste Project exposés documenting egregious animal abuses, transparency deficiencies and oversight failures in Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) dog experimentation laboratories, a coalition of Republicans and Democrats in Congress is taking decisive action to protect dogs, veterans, and taxpayers. This week, at an event co-hosted with WCW, Reps. Dave Brat (R-VA) […]
Yesterday, White Coat Waste Project hosted a briefing and game night on Capitol Hill to help roll out new bipartisan legislation and explain to Congress why the price is wrong for $15 billion in taxpayer-funded animal experiments each year. The event was emceed by public speaker and award-winning TV personality Marco Antonio Regil, host of […]
Following a damning Department of Veterans Affairs report documenting animal welfare violations and oversight failures in dog experimentation laboratories at the Richmond VA Medical Center, U.S. Senators from Virginia Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Mark Warner (D-VA) have joined other Congress members calling for reforms. In a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, the Senators express concerns about Richmond […]
You may recall that in March, White Coat Waste Project filed a complaint with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Inspector General to report waste and abuse in dog experimentation laboratories at the McGuire VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia. The VA has just completed its investigation and the situation for dogs at McGuire […]
White Coat Waste Project, Republicans and Democrats in Congress and more than 350,000 taxpayers are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to end its cruel and unnecessary experiments on dogs. Now, the brave military veterans that the VA is supposed to be serving are speaking out against this waste and abuse. More than […]
Neighbors of the McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Richmond, Virginia had no idea that inside the facility puppies are forced to run on treadmills until they collapse in painful and deadly heart failure experiments. That’s changed with White Coat Waste Project’s recent national exposé of abuses at McGuire VAMC including fatal botched […]
