Results: Trump Signs Bill Making Animal Cruelty a Federal Crime

President Trump signed a bill into law Monday establishing animal cruelty as a federal crime after the measure passed with bipartisan support through Congress. Are you glad that at least America's elected representatives can come together and agree on the need to protect animals?

Are you surprised that Trump took the time to sign a bill such as this amidst the impeachment hearings and other "distractions" going on?

A statement from the White House press office Monday evening confirmed that the president had signed the bill, which specifically codifies so-called "animal crushing" as a federal offense punishable with a fine and up to seven years in prison. The now-passed Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) law defines the term as any act where an animal "is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury." Do you agree that animal abuse - of virtually any kind - should be a federal offense?

"America's beloved pets are safer thanks to the passage of the PACT Act by President Trump and Congress," Lea Berman, founder of Creatures Great and Small and former Social Secretary for the George W. Bush administration, said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. "It will finally be a federal crime to abuse or torture animals, a recognition of how valuable animals are to us, not only as pets but as service animals, law enforcement support, and loyal companions." If you have a pet, are you glad that there is more protection from anyone endangering or hurting him or her, thanks to the PACT law?

The PACT Act, led by U.S. Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and U.S. Representatives Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL), passed the House and Senate in recent weeks without dissent. In the current politically charged environment, where it seems everyone is taking sides, are you surprised that there was no dissent from either side about PACT?