<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/91edeaad-c4b9-4006-8ae4-4a3941cdce92/3C5ADEAB-76A3-4E1E-A378-11EF48B3DE47/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_whales_legislation/ix5ubwk447wjjnmt" href="https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_whales_legislation/ix5ubwk447wjjnmt" style="font-size: 11px;">community.hsus.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_whales_legislation/ix5ubwk447wjjnmt"><P>Congress is currently considering <A target="_blank" href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.con.res.00350:"><FONT color="darkgreen">H. Con. Res. 350/S. Con. Res. 86</FONT></A>, resolutions which state that the U.S. "should use all appropriate measures to end commercial whaling in all of its forms"—including so-called scientific whaling—and "seek to strengthen the conservation and management measures" to help protect whale species.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_whales_legislation/ix5ubwk447wjjnmt"><P>These resolutions make clear that Americans will not tolerate the use of loopholes by nations such as Japan, Iceland and Norway to continue commercial whaling despite a moratorium on whaling implemented by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_whales_legislation/ix5ubwk447wjjnmt"><P><STRONG>TAKE ACTION<BR /></STRONG>There is concern that at this year’s upcoming IWC meeting, certain member nations—including the United States—may try to cut a deal with Japan and others in order to reach a compromise. If this happens, it will open the door to a resumption of commercial whaling, which is both unsustainable and inhumane.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3C5ADEAB-76A3-4E1E-A378-11EF48B3DE47/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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