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Today, the Humane Society of the United States will award House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) with its annual Legislative Leader award for his work in 2010.  The Humane Society singled out Conyers for his leadership on the passage of a ban on the sale of animal torture (“crush”) videos, as well as for his efforts to ban the export and slaughter of American horses for human consumption and to establish a federal database for tracking animal cruelty crimes.

“Fighting animal cruelty continues to be an important priority of mine,” said Conyers.  “In the 111^th Congress, we managed to create a broad, bipartisan coalition to address the worst practices of animal cruelty, and I look forward to the same spirit of cooperation in this Congress.”

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