I think if the House sends the same bill three times to the Senate, it becomes very hard to turn it down. It becomes much easier if you've passed an extremely weak bill and you can hold it out as a smoke screen, “Oh, we've already done something on animal cruelty, that's why we're not accepting your bill”. The senator said it himself. He said that one of the reasons we are so concerned about this bill getting passed is that we would lose the lever. He's right. To a large degree we would lose the lever. That's a big concern, because we would see animal cruelty legislation that's utterly ineffective.
If you want to talk about something this justice committee could do today, it would be to pass a motion saying adopt immediately the comprehensive animal cruelty legislation this House has already passed twice. Why would we even need any debate? It's already been passed through the House twice. Pass that motion, send it to the House, and say to the government, pass it today.
We've already received unanimous consent for this legislation previously. Why on earth would we need to debate it any longer? Advance it, and that's the way we could advance animal cruelty legislation immediately.