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Senator Greenleaf Announces
Public Hearing on House Eco-Terrorism Proposal
The Senate
Judiciary Committee will conduct a public hearing on House
Bill 213, a measure sponsored by Rep. Robert W. Godshall to
establish penalties for crimes of eco-terrorism, beginning
at 10 a.m. Monday, June 6, 2005, in Room 8E-B of the Capitol
Building East Wing.
Witnesses will
include Michael Hsu, a Bucks County resident whose
property—a flower farm and proposed site of a primate
kennel-- was recently vandalized; John S. Ellis, Ph.D.,
Executive Director, PA Society for Biomedical Research; John
C. Eckenrode, Special Agent In Charge, FBI, Philadelphia;
Heidi Prescott, Senior Vice President, The Humane Society of
the US; Mary F. Hanley, Executive Vice President, National
Association for Biomedical Research; Johnna Seeton,
Pennsylvania Humane Society Officer and Board Member of the
PA Legislative Animal Network; Michael Moyer, VMD, Immediate
Past President and Legislative Committee Chair, PA
Veterinary Medical Association; Larry Frankel, Legislative
Director, American Civil Liberties Union of PA; Robert
Freed, Chief of Police, Upper Gwynedd Twp.and Joseph J.
Daly, Superintendent of Police, Lower Merion Twp.; Priscilla
Ferrater-Mora, Executive Director, PNC, Inc.; Thomas Scott,
Principal, W.B. Saul High School of Agricultural Sciences;
Susan Stout, Project Leader, US Forest Service, Northeast
Research Station; Cathy Pedler, Coordinator, Gains Defense
League, and Martin Visnoski, Erie County Environmental
Coalition; and Chip Lines, President, PA Veal Producer
Association, and Dr. Adnan Aydin, Marcho Farms. |
