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Taxpayer, please find attached/below the December Progress
Report outlining the most recent returns on your investment.
I've also included a fantastic article covering these wins in
more detail. Let me know what you think - and thanks again for
all you do for us!















Taxpayer's December Progress Report
This headline says it all:

"Federal spending bill includes historic effort to curb
government animal tests" -WASHINGTON EXAMINER
After more than a year of work with Congress, WCW and its 2
MILLION+ supporters (that's you, Taxpayer!) scored some historic
wins that will hold government accountable for wasteful animal
tests, save taxpayers money and spare the lives of countless
dogs, cats and primates:

NIH Spending bill calls on NIH to reduce primate testing!

Pro-animal testing lobbyists tried to remove the language and
maintain current levels of primate labs. You called Congress to
fight it... and won!

VA ordered to phase-out dog, cat and primate testing within the
next 5 years!

It's the first time in history that Congress has set hard
deadlines for the elimination and reduction of experiments on
dogs, cats, and primates!

FDA must set a timeline for the reduction of primate tests and
retirement of its monkeys!

FDA monkeys will finally get the 2nd chance they deserve!

Taxpayer, don't forget: absolutely NONE of this would have been
possible without your donations and countless emails, calls and
social media posts urging Congress to take action.

Because taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay $15 billion+ for
wasteful government animal experiments.










Anthony Bellotti
President/Founder
White Coat Waste Project


P.S. Taxpayer, these wins are amazing, but we still have to
win our biggest fight this year: Rallying all 535 Members of
Congress to pass Violet's Law before 2020!

Violet's Law is the only way we can ensure lab survivors get
the second chance they deserve. But we must gather another
12,710 taxpayer signatures in the next 24 hours. If you haven't
yet, please sign our urgent petition today:






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Federal spending bill
includes historic effort to curb government animal tests

By Carlin Becker
Appropriations legislation expected to be signed into law by
President Trump by the end of the week includes historic language
directing several federal agencies to curb their use of animal
research.

The bipartisan spending deal announced by lawmakers on Monday
consists of 2,300 pages of bill text outlining $1.37 trillion in
federal funding for 2020. The House passed the bills Tuesday in
two packages, which will likely be followed by Senate passage on
Thursday and a signature from the president before federal
funding runs out on Friday.

The legislation instructs the National Institutes of Health,
housed under the Department of Health and Human Services, to work
toward reducing and replacing its taxpayer-funded experiments on
primates with equivalent alternative methods. The agency, which
has come under fire for repeatedly violating spending
transparency law, spends more tax dollars experimenting on
primates than any other government agency.

Spending legislation also repeats language that was included in
the final full-year spending bills for 2018 and 2019, which
directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to extend restrictions
on its controversial canine testing. The department will continue
to have to gain explicit approval from the VA secretary to
conduct dog experiments and will now also have to do the same for
research involving cats and primates. In a historic move,
Congress is also requesting a plan by Dec. 31, 2020, for the VA
to "eliminate or reduce" the department's cat, dog, and primate
use within five years.

Also included in the final spending package is language approved
by the House Appropriations Committee over the summer calling for
the Food and Drug Administration to provide a plan for the
reduction of its primate testing and the retirement of monkeys.

"As a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, I'm
proud that measures I supported to hold federal agencies
accountable for reducing harmful experiments on dogs and primates
have been included in the final spending deal for fiscal year
2020," California Republican Rep. Ken Calvert told the Washington
Examiner in an email. "For the sake of animal welfare and public
health, we need to ensure that the government's efforts to curb
wasteful animal tests aren't just lip service."

"This bill puts us one step closer to ending dog testing at the
VA once and for all," Nevada Democrat Rep. Dina Titus said in an
email. "This accomplishment is worth celebrating, but we must
keep fighting to eliminate these barbaric practices that inflict
severe pain on animals without producing any discernible medical
advances."

Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, who has led efforts to
reduce canine testing at the VA alongside Titus, echoed that
sentiment.

"It's unacceptable for the Department of Veterans Affairs to use
taxpayer dollars to fund cruel, unnecessary experiments on
animals at the VA," the Army combat veteran said in an email.
"These painful-often deadly-tests have gone on long enough, and
it's about time we worked together to end them for good.
Protecting cats and dogs is common sense, and I'm glad we were
able to come together to get this done."

The appropriations legislation comes as several federal agencies
have been criticized lately for conducting costly animal research
opposed by most taxpayers on their dime. Many of the experiments
involve painful tests that have been denounced as unnecessary by
some experts on the matter. Opponents to animal testing applauded
Congress's latest move.

"Medical research has saved the lives of veterans and others for
decades. Over those decades, technology has improved how that
research is conducted, including alternatives to doing painful
experiments on the same animals we keep as pets and rely on as
service dogs," said Sherman Gillums Jr., retired U.S. Marine
Corps officer and chief advocacy officer at American Veterans.

"AMVETS appreciates the lawmakers in the House and Senate who are
demanding greater accountability in how taxpayers dollars are
spent in order to modernize and improve VA research," he told the
Washington Examiner in an email.

Taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project also commended
lawmakers, with Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy
Justin Goodman pointing out that "a growing majority of
Americans-including our 2 million taxpayer advocates-don't want
the government squandering billions of their tax dollars to give
puppies heart attacks, cripple kittens or addict monkeys to
street drugs in wasteful experiments."

"The historic, hard-won measures we worked with Congress to
include in the 2020 spending package will ensure that the NIH, VA
and FDA are actively working to eliminate this government-funded
animal abuse, and that lawmakers and taxpayers can hold them
accountable," he wrote in an email.












To stop taxpayer-funded
animal tests, we must first stop the $15 billion+ in wasteful
government spending.

We find, expose, and
de-fund wasteful government spending on animal experiments. To
change public policy, we unite liberty lovers and animal lovers
with hard-hitting investigations and public policy campaigns.










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