Kill people, not animals: Mark Green

Rep. Mark Green, taking a day off from campaigning to show up in Congress, is fighting for Wisconsin again.

This time it's a bill to outlaw cockfighting, WisPolitics reports.

WASHINGTON – Legislation authored by U.S. Rep. Mark Green (R-Green Bay) to help crack down on illegal animal fighting took center stage at a House Judiciary Committee hearing Thursday. Green said the hearing marked a significant step forward for his “Animal Fighting Prohibition Act,” which would create felony-level penalties for criminals who transport animals or cockfighting paraphernalia across state lines.

“Deliberately training two animals to kill each other is sadistic and wrong,” Green said.

On the other hand, deliberately training people to kill each other and then sending them into a combat zone is no problem, said Green, who leads the Victory in Iraq caucus in the House and is one of the biggest cheerleaders for the war, which has claimed at least 35,000 military and civilian lives. Casualty count.