Political Work and Congressional Lobbying   
FIRST LADY NANCY REAGAN

First Lady Nancy Reagan was one of the first to feel the heat.....
while still in college, Pacheco led a successful high visibility public
campaign, untimatley compelling the First Lady to, over her objections,
pulbicly state that she would not wear fur coats again,
becaue of cuelty to animals; this followed her wearing a $12,000 fur
coat to the swearing-in ceremony of her husband, President Reagan.

FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH
Repeated again with First Lady Barbara Bush,
this time before Inauguration Day
and with  much less resistance.

US. N.I.H.
Thee months after the Nancy Reagan announcement,
      began working undercover
      in a federally funded research facility,
      located less than 10 miles from the White House,
      then spearheaded a successful, high profile public campaign
      to compel the $13 billion per year U.S. National Institutes of Health
      to for the first time in history,
      terminate a federal research grant
      on the grounds of cruelty to animals.
I.B.R.
Unprecedented Action by the National Institutes of Health:
Pacheco successfully lobbieMembers of the House and Senate
       to apply political pressure on the federal bureaucracy and the NIH
       to shut down primate-arm-crippling animal experiments
       by terminating the federal research grant to I.B.R.
       which was in it's 18th year. Covered by
       virtually all major media outlets.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CASPAR WEINBERGER
      Unpredecented Action by the Secretary of Defense:
      Pacheco led a successful high profile campaign
      and lobbied many members of Congress
      to compel the U.S. Secretary of Defense,
      Caspar Weinberger to personally order
      the immediate change of DOD policy
      with the permanent termination
      of the military's shooting at point blank range
      of tied- down live dogs and cats
      in violent wound experiments,
      and the immediate closure of the DOD's 
      Bethesda based Uniformed Services University
      of the Health Sciences wound laboratory all together,
      and ordered the full use of painkillers
      for all other live animals shot
      in DOD wound laboratories.
   
Covered on the front page of the Washington Post
      and extensively by all major media outlets.
H.H.S. SECRETARY MARGARET HECKLER
      Unprecedented Action by the Sectreatry of HHS:
      Pacheco successfully lobbied the House and Senate to apply
      political pressure on the HHS to shut down primate-brain-scrambling tests
      by terminating their federal funding. Covered by all major media outlets.
      U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary
      Margaret Heckler was compelled to change HHS policy,
      contravene orders by the National Institutes of Health,
      and terminate a $15 million brain scrambling experiment
      in it's 15th year at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania. 
   
     When it comes to Budgets......
     HHS has the 3rd largest budget in the world,
     only the entire U.S. Federal Government
     and the entire Soviet Union, are larger.
     The U.S. Defense Department budget, is less. 
N.E.A.V.S.
      For 10 years (1986-1996) directed th congressional lobbying
      of an $8 million advocacy group (NEAVS); responsible for hiring,
      firing, evaluating, motivating and directing the work of lobbyists
      and all lobbying efforts, political media events,
      legislative communications and political strategy
      on a large number of political issues ranging from
      terminating heavily defended federal subsidies for fur coats
      to convincing federal agencies to stop
      requiring the use of live, fully conscious animals
      in the extermely painful and ultimately fatal
      "Lethal Dose 50" tests.  

P.E.T.A.
      For 20 years directed the congressional lobbying
      efforts of a $16 million advocacy group
      (PETA); responsible for hiring, firing, evaluating,
      motivating and directing the work of lobbyists
      political media events and legislative campaigns ranging
      from the introduction of federal legislation to
      free mutilated laboratory animals
      to congressional hearings
      to amend the Federal Animal Welfare Act.
      (1981-2000)
TAIWAN
Lobbied in Taiwan with actor Steven Seagal to successfully push the
      passage of the first and only law in Taiwan outlawing cruelty to animals.

U.S. HOUSE  SCIENCE  SUBCOMMITTEE
      Very active in generating congressional hearings
      such as the 2000 oversight hearings by the House
      Science Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment,
      for the purpose of reducing the suffering of  tens of millions of animals
      in federally funded laboratories.
      Played a leadership role in numerous congressional and agency actions such as:

VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE
Lobbying Congress in 1999 to fight
against a Clinton Administration campaign
which was led by Vice President Al Gore,
to change regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency,
governing the U.S. chemical industry.  Vice President Gore
wanted thousands of already approved chemicals
to be tested again, on millions of live animals
in very painful, fatal, poisoning experiments.

FEDERAL ANIMAL WELFARE ACT
Testifying before Congress as the lead witness
in 1981 oversight hearings by the House
Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology
on behalf of federal legislation designed to help
reduce the suffering of  over 100 million animals
killed in experiments annually in the U.S. by
       amending the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

SILVER SPRING MONKEY LEGISLATION
Spearheading the introduction of high profile landmark
      federal legislation in the mid 1980's to force the federal government
      to release the primates crippled in a federally funded laboratory
      that had been shut down (the Silver Spring Monkeys),
      securing over 100 Congressional Sponsors of the legislation
      and the signatures of 55 U.S. Senators,
      ranging from the liberal Senator Ted Kennedy
      to the conservative Senator Jesse Helms.
      This legislation was actively and aggressively lobbied against
      by the national biomedical industry,
      including the American Medical Association,
      the Association of American Medical Colleges and Universities,
      on down the line.

FEDERAL FUR SUBSIDIES
Spearheading the difficult passage (featured on C-Span)
of amendments in the House and Senate
and utimatley singed by the President
terminating multi-million dollar federal grants
to the fur industry on the grounds of cruelty,
which were in their 28th year.

U.S. CONGRESSMAN TOM LANTOS
Successfully campaigned for the re-election of political leaders
such as Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA),
co-founder of the Human Rights Caucus
and founder of the Congressional Animal Welfare Caucus.

U.S. SENTAOR ROBERT SMITH
Raised money for and campaigned for anti-cruelty
U.S. Senator Robert Smith (R-NH).

U.S. SENATOR ROBERT DOLE
Raised money for the Presidential Campaign of anti-cruelty
U.S. Senator Bob Dole (R-KS).

Contributed funds to and worked on a number of
state and local election and re-election campaigns. 


      Has held many media and lobbying events in numerous venues
from the National Press Club to the National Democratic Club,
and in U.S. House and Senate hearing rooms, etc.

MICHAEL JACKSON'S CHIMPANZEE BUBBLES
Produced media-generating-lobbying-events
such as flying in from California, singer Michael Jackson's
pet chimpanzee Bubbles, with trainer in tow,
to host black tie events on Capital Hill,
at the Ritz Carlton, etc., 
.....arranged for Bubbles visit members of congress personally
and bring media attention to pending animal protection legislation.

CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE WILSON
Father-in-law was one of the most powerful
members of Congress, Congressman Charlie Wilson (D-TX),
producer of "the largest military covert operation in history"
who rose to power under the tutorship of
House Speaker Tip O'Neil;
the centerpiece of a 60 Minutes special
in which the President of Afghanistan stated
Congressman Wilson was the # 1 reason
why the Afghan Army was able to deliver an embarrassing
and crushing defeat to the invading Russian Red Army,
leading to the fall of the Soviet Union.
TOM HANKS
      Pacheco put this inside track to use for the benefit of the helpless.
The Congressman and Pacheco's brother and mother
were the only guests at the clandestine wedding
of Pacheco and the Congressman's only daughter.
In 2006 actor and producer Tom Hanks
purchased the rights to the book "Charlie Wilson's War"
and is making it into a movie in which
Hanks will play Congressman Wilson. 
Lobbying and Pressuring Federal Government Agencies

   Has engineered and led numerous
   high profile, high impact, 
   national and international
   campaigns against,
   and sometimes alongside,
   various forms of government agencies
   for the purpose of
   stopping inhumane practices
   and reducing the suffering of animals,
   entities such as the.......
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (perform painful, fatal drug test on live animals)


U.S. Department of Justice (throw some animal advocates in jail)


U.S. Department of Defense (kill millions of animals in painful experiments)


U.S. Department of Transportation  (used to allow painful fatal experiments on animals)


U.S. Department of the Interior  (allow the brutal maiming and killing of millions of wild animals)


U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (perform many painful fatal experiments on live animals)


U.S. Department of Agriculture (allow painful fatal experiments on millions of live animals, etc.)


U.S. Food and Drug Administration (allow many painful fatal experiments on millions of live animals)


U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (promote the painful maiming and killing of millions of wild animals)


U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (pay for painful fatal tests on millions of animals)


National Park Service (allow hunting and trapping in National Parks, etc.)


Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (performs painful, fatal tests on animals)


Smithsonian Institution (owns the National Zoo where experiments on animals are performed)


National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (perform painful animal tests) 


National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (authorize painful animal tests)

National Science Foundation (fund many painful animal experiments)

National Institutes of Health (perform painful animal experiments)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (perform painful animal experiments)


International Trade Commission (regulate inhumane trapping and killing of wildlife)


Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (charged with enforceing the AWA)


Federal Bureau of Investigations (are pressured by corporations to pursue some activits)


Federal Trade Commission


The European Union  (regulate many inhumane practices on millions of animals)
Contact Information

Alex Pacheco
1577 NE 48 Court
Oakland Park, FL 33334
Tel: 954 938 0506
AlexPacheco2005@yahoo.com
www.AllAmericanAnimals.com