Lawmakers have rushed to introduce legislation before the end of the current Congress that would halt taxpayer-sponsored testing by the Veterans Affairs Department on cats and kittens.
If the bill — introduced by Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla. — isn’t passed in the current lame-duck session, it would at least be a marker for the new Congress that’s set to convene in January.