WASHINGTON — Nothing brings everyone together quite like puppies and kittens.
This goes for lawmakers, too. Thursday’s “Paws for Love” adoption event on Capitol Hill was a bipartisan affair. The Valentine’s Day event hosts, Reps. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and John Campbell (R-Calif.), along with Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), were among the many who gathered to pet cats and dogs from 10 D.C.-area animal shelters.
“There are about seven million animals that are brought to shelters throughout the year, and about half of them have to be euthanized. It’s a shame,” said Moran, who, together with Campbell, co-chairs the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus. But Moran added, “three and half million or so” are adopted from animal shelters each year.
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