This is crazy...

There is truly an interest group for everything (and Tom DeLay will take money from them)...

Last year, U.S. cockfighters formed Citizens for Preserving Historic Animal Use, which spent $60,000 lobbying against the legislation from mid-2004 through mid-2005, federal records show.

Repeated messages left with Larry Meyers of the Washington lobbying firm Meyers & Associates, who was listed as the lobbyist on those reports, were not returned.

Cockfighters also established a political action committee, Citizens for the Humane and Ethical Treatment of Animals, or CHETA, which gave $1,000 each to then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas.

King has been one of the most outspoken opponents of the animal fighting bill on the Judiciary Committee.

In an e-mail interview King said that 3 million ‘‘human illegal aliens pour across our southern border every year. We can’t control our borders. What are we doing trying to regulate chicken travel?’’