Members of Congress Should Reject HSUS Award
The Humane Society of the United States recently released its scorecard for Congress. There’s much irony to be found in the situation considering the organization receives a “D” from CharityWatch and was recently embroiled in a major sexual harassment scandal in which the board of directors tried to cover for the alleged sexual predator CEO. How can HSUS have any credibility to rate lawmakers on being humane?
In addition to releasing the scorecard, HSUS also recently hosted the Congressional Humane Awards. Most times the legislators who received the awards don’t even show up to the ceremony. This most recent ceremony was only attended by a few dozen people with over 150 people “honored.” (Probably, a lot of bored staffers.)
HSUS—which spends over half a million dollars on lobbying—uses the award ceremony as a way to legitimize itself with Members and staff. Most Members wouldn’t support HSUS if they knew its real agenda, which like PETA wants to put every livestock farmer and cattle rancher out of business. Longtime HSUS leader Wayne Pacelle even has said, “I don’t want to see another cat or dog born.”
But some lawmakers are on to HSUS. Several years ago Alaskan Congressman Don Young publicly rejected an award from HSUS, stating:
“Local animal shelters and humane societies do excellent work by caring for neglected and homeless animals, and through their spaying and neutering programs. This organization, however, has absolutely nothing to do with animal welfare. Instead they prey on the emotions of big-hearted Americans.”
More Members should follow suit. If your Representative or Senator is on the list below, you might want to give them a call or email and tell you them how you feel.
Rep. Pete Aguilar
Rep. Nanette Barragan
Rep. Ami Bera
Rep. Donald Beyer
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici
Rep. Salud Carbajal
Rep. Matt Cartwright
Rep. Kathy Castor
Rep. David Cicilline
Rep. Katherine Clark
Rep. Steve Cohen
Rep. Gerry Connolly
Rep. Lou Correa
Rep. Joe Courtney
Rep. Charlie Crist
Rep. Susan Davis
Rep. Pete DeFazio
Rep. Rosa DeLauro
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier
Rep. Ted Deutch
Rep. Mike Doyle
Rep. Eliot Engel
Rep. Adriano Espaillat
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick
Rep. Bill Foster
Rep. Lois Frankel
Rep. Ruben Gallego
Rep. Jimmy Gomez
Rep. Al Green
Rep. Raul Grijalva
Rep. Denny Heck
Rep. Brian Higgins
Rep. Jim Himes
Rep. Jared Huffman
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Rep. John Katko
Rep. Derek Kilmer
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi
Rep. Conor Lamb
Rep. John Larson
Rep. Dan Lipinski
Rep. Alan Lowenthal
Rep. Nita Lowey
Rep. Ben Ray Lujan
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Rep. Donald McEachin
Rep. Jim McGovern
Rep. Jerry McNerney
Rep. Seth Moulton
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Rep. Grace Napolitano
Del. Eleanor Norton
Rep. Jimmy Panetta
Rep. Chellie Pingree
Rep. Mark Pocan
Rep. David Price
Rep. Mike Quigley
Rep. Jamie Raskin
Rep. Kathleen Rice
Sen. Jacky Rosen
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger
Del. Gregorio Sablan
Rep. Linda Sanchez
Rep. John Sarbanes
Rep. Adam Schiff
Rep. Jose Serrano
Rep. Brad Sherman
Sen. Krysten Sinema
Rep. Albio Sires
Rep. Adam Smith
Rep. Darren Soto
Rep. Thomas Suozzi
Rep. Mark Takano
Rep. Dina Titus
Rep. Paul Tonko
Rep. Juan Vargas
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Rep. Peter Welch
Rep. John Yarmuth
Rep. Ralph Abraham
Rep. Alma Adams
Rep. Andy Barr
Rep. Sanford Bishop
Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Rep. Brendan Boyle
Rep. Anthony Brown
Rep. Vern Buchanan
Rep. Ken Calvert
Rep. Tony Cardenas
Rep. Joaquin Castro
Rep. Judy Chu
Rep. Chris Collins
Rep. Rodney Davis
Rep. Debbie Dingell
Rep. Ron Estes
Rep. Matt Gaetz
Rep. Morgan Griffith
Rep. Alcee Hastings
Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Rep. Hank Johnson
Rep. Marcy Kaptur
Rep. Bill Keating
Rep. Ro Khanna
Rep. Pete King
Rep. Ted Lieu
Rep. Stephen Lynch
Rep. Brian Mast
Rep. Michael McCaul
Rep. Betty McCollum
Rep. Gregory Meeks
Rep. Grace Meng
Rep. Donald Norcross
Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Del. Stacey Plaskett
Rep. Bill Posey
Rep. Janice Schakowsky
Rep. Kurt Schrader
Rep. Chris Smith
Rep. Jackie Speier
Rep. Steve Stivers
Rep. Marc Veasey
Rep. Roger Williams
Rep. Ted Yoho
Rep. Mike Conaway
Rep. Collin Peterson
Sen. Pat Roberts
Sen. Debbie Stabenow
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Sen. Chris Van Hollen
Sen. Chris Murphy
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Sen. Tom Udall
Sen. Jeff Merkley
Sen. Kamala Harris
Sen. Richard Blumenthal
Sen. Cory Booker
Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Sen. Maria Cantwell
Sen. Ben Cardin
Sen. Tom Carper
Sen. Bob Casey
Sen. Susan Collins
Sen. Chris Coons
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto
Sen. Mike Crapo
Sen. Steve Daines
Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Sen. Dick Durbin
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Sen. Deb Fischer
Sen. Lindsey Graham
Sen. Maggie Hassan
Sen. John Kennedy
Sen. Patrick Leahy
Sen. Mike Lee
Sen. Ed Markey
Sen. Martha McSally
Sen. Bob Menendez
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito
Sen. Jerry Moran
Sen. Patty Murray
Sen. Rand Paul
Sen. Gary Peters
Sen. Jack Reed
Sen. Chuck Schumer
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
Sen. Pat Toomey
Sen. Mark Warner
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Sen. Ron Wyden
