He voted against legislation to ban horse slaughter in 2005, but in the current session he co-sponsored legislation to strengthen the penalties for animal fighting and signed onto a letter requesting increased funds for the adequate enforcement of animal welfare laws.
The president's fiscal year 2014 budget should request increased funding for PEPFAR and the Global Fund, along with increased investments in research and domestic AIDS programming.
Administration officials said Obama will request increased funding for Colombia in his next budget, to be submitted to Congress this month.
This month, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Dan Benishek (R-MI) wrote a letter to the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Sylvia Burwell, urging her to request increased funding for the enforcement of the Lacey Act.
Significantly, too, the administration did request increased funding for enforcement of federal humane laws as part of the President's Budget for Fiscal Year 2012, and with 159 members of the House and Senate lining up in support, record funding for enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act was secured.
Funding agencies who manage the process of allocating research funding are requesting increasing volumes of information from applicants in an attempt to optimise fairness and transparency.
The request for increased funding comes just as Mr. Kay is scheduled to brief Congress in closed sessions on Thursday on an interim report of the Iraq Survey Group's findings so far.
The filing included copies of Cunningham's earmark requests for increased funding for programs two contractors worked on, and e-mails from his staff members expressing his anger when some of his requests were cut.
In explaining its request for increased funding it said the money sought would "support the agency's work to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation".
Barack Obama's 2017 budget request calls for increased funding for the Honduran police and military.
