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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AETA</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) of 2006 is a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_law" class="mw-redirect" title="United States federal law" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">United States federal law</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Congress" title="Act of Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pub.L.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legislink.org/us/pl-109-374" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-right: 13px;">109–374</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">; </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_18_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 18 of the United States Code" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">18 U.S.C.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/43" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-right: 13px;">§ 43</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) that prohibits any person from engaging in certain conduct "for the purpose of damaging or interfering with the operations of an animal enterprise."</span><sup id="cite_ref-law.cornell.edu_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Act#cite_note-law.cornell.edu-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The statute covers any act that either "damages or causes the loss of any real or personal property" or "places a person in reasonable fear" of injury....</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The law amends the Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992 </b>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Congress" title="Act of Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pub.L.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legislink.org/us/pl-102-346" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84"); padding-right: 13px;">102–346</a>) and gives the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Department of Justice</a> greater authority to target <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights_activists" class="mw-redirect" title="Animal rights activists" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">animal rights activists</a>. The AETA does so by broadening the definition of "animal enterprise" to include academic and commercial enterprises that use or sell animals or animal products. It also increases the existing penalties, includes penalties based on the amount of economic damage caused, and allows animal enterprises to seek restitution.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The law was originally introduced in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/109th_United_States_Congress" title="109th United States Congress" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">109th Congress</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> by </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Petri" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Petri" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Thomas Petri</a> (R-WI)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and <b>Senators </b></span><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dianne Feinstein</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (D-CA) and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Inhofe" class="mw-redirect" title="James Inhofe" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">James Inhofe</a></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> (R-OK)</b>. The final version of the bill, S. 3880.,</span><sup id="cite_ref-textofbill_2-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Act#cite_note-textofbill-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> was </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">passed in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Senate</a> on September 29, 2006, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unanimous_consent" title="Unanimous consent" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">unanimous consent</a>, a Senate procedure that is used to expedite the passage of non-controversial bills without an actual vote</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. On November 13, 2006, the <b>House passed the bill under </b></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_the_rules" title="Suspension of the rules" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>suspension of the rules</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>, a procedure generally used to quickly pass non-controversial bills</b>.</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> The lone dissenting statement was made by Representative <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Kucinich" title="Dennis Kucinich" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Dennis Kucinich</a>, who said that the bill was "written in such a way as to have a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect(law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chilling effect (law)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">chilling effect</a> on the exercise of the constitutional rights of protest.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span><sup id="cite_ref-kucinichcomments_3-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Act#cite_note-kucinichcomments-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Neither Rep. Kucinich nor any other members of the House of Representatives called for a recorded vote; the bill passed with a voice vote.</span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Act#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The bill was <b>signed by President George W. Bush on November 27, 2006.</b> Earlier versions of the bill were known as S. 1926 and H.R. 4239.</span><sup id="cite_ref-earlyleg_5-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Act#cite_note-earlyleg-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The bill is described by the author as being intended to "provide the Department of Justice the necessary authority to apprehend, prosecute, and convict individuals committing animal enterprise terror</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">."</span><sup id="cite_ref-textofbill_2-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Enterprise_Terrorism_Act#cite_note-textofbill-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div>=</div>