Press Release

WASHINGTON (July 29, 2022)—The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the Big Cat Public Safety Act (H.R. 263) by a vote of 278 to 134. The bill would prohibit keeping tigers, lions and other big cat species as pets, and ban direct public contact like cub petting. Sponsored and championed by Rep. Michael Quigley, D-Ill., and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa, the bill now moves to the Senate.

WASHINGTON (July 19, 2022)—Today the Humane Society Legislative Fund, the nation’s leading political advocacy organization for animal protection, announced its endorsement of Rep. Vern Buchanan for Florida’s 16th Congressional District.

WASHINGTON (July 19, 2022)—Today the Humane Society Legislative Fund, the nation’s leading political advocacy organization for animal protection, announced its endorsement of Rep. Earl Blumenauer for Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District.

WASHINGTON (July 19, 2022)—Today the Humane Society Legislative Fund, the nation’s leading political advocacy organization for animal protection, announced its endorsement of Rep. Sharice Davids for Kansas’s 3rd Congressional District.

WASHINGTON (July 19, 2022)—Today the Humane Society Legislative Fund, the nation’s leading political advocacy organization for animal protection, announced its endorsement of Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick for Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District.

In the midst of Triple Crown season, coalition issues a joint letter to congressional leaders, calling for passage of the SAFE Act to end the slaughter of American horses

The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund are calling on the lab to release more than 80 beagles still being tested on