As I was researching the .gov site for bills, I found one that needs support - END TAXPAYER FUNDED animal experiments on cats
The KITTEN Act would ban the use of cats in scientific or medical experiments that cause the animals pain. The full name is the Kittens In Traumatic Testing Ends Now Act.
The bill was introduced in May by Rep. Mike Bishop (R-MI8). Bishop brought kittens to the Capitol to promote the cause — a good photo op if ever there was one.
Supporters argue the bill would help prevent unneeded cruelty to helpless animals.
“I’m shocked and disturbed that for decades the USDA — the very organization charged with enforcing animal welfare laws — has been unnecessarily killing hundreds of kittens in expensive and inefficient lab experiments,” Rep. Bishop said in a press release.
“Any government research program like this one that’s been funded since the Nixon administration needs to be put under the microscope, especially when it involves using kittens as disposable test tubes in harmful tests that most taxpayers oppose.”
Bishop also has pushed to end funding of painful experiments on dogs by a handful of Department of Veterans Affairs facilities. Bishop, a dog owner, was part of an effort to defund the VA canine experiments as part of the federal spending bill earlier this year, according to his office.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr5780/summary
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/07/kittens-capitol-hill-end-cat-experiments/682679002/
this bill was just introduced and we can help it get passed by calling congress and going to the Bill page to make yourself heard.
It awaits a possible vote in the House Agriculture Committee.