Tenure: 118th–119th Congresses
Years of Service: 2023–Present
The former chief of staff to Senator Richard Shelby, Katie Britt has begun to build a strong animal protection record since winning election to her former boss’s seat at the beginning of the 118th Congress. Like her predecessor, Britt sits on the powerful Appropriations Committee and occupies the more establishment Republican seat in Alabama’s U.S. Senate delegation. She achieved political celebrity early in her Senate career by delivering her party’s nationally televised rebuttal to President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union address. She is publicly perceived as a rising star within Senate GOP leadership.
In her short congressional career thus far, Britt has shown willingness to engage on mainstream animal protection issues that appeal broadly to conservatives, centrists, and moderates. In 2025, she cosponsored a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to rescind a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that authorized the unprecedented killing of hundreds of thousands of owls in the Pacific Northwest. Later the same year, she voted in favor of that resolution, led by Louisiana Republican John Kennedy, on the Senate floor, although it failed to advance on procedural grounds.
Britt cosponsored the FIGHT Act, S. 1454, recognizing the wide support it had from her state’s law enforcement community. The Alabama Sheriffs’ Association joined the National Sheriffs’ Association in endorsing the bill. That legislation would improve enforcement of laws against dogfighting and cockfighting, the nation’s most widespread categories of criminal animal cruelty.
She also cosponsored the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), a conservation package aimed at funding state-level wildlife recovery efforts for at-risk species.
Notable Actions
119th Congress
✅ Cosponsor of the Fighting Inhumane Gambling and High-Risk Trafficking (FIGHT) Act, S. 1454, to strengthen federal enforcement against animal fighting and related criminal activity.
✅ Cosponsor of S.J. Res. 69, to nullify the FWS Plan to Kill 450,000 Barred Owls across 24 million acres, including 14 national parks and 17 national forests, and is now going to be used as a “mitigation measure” to allow incidental take of spotted owls – turning this plan into an effort to shoot barred owls and to kill spotted owls by cutting down the trees they require to survive.
❌ Voted “Yea” on S.J. Res. 23 (Senate Roll Call Vote 122), a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn federal regulations strengthening implementation of the Endangered Species Act, including protections governing the listing of imperiled species and designation of critical habitat. A “Yea” vote is the anti-animal position because it supported eliminating stronger protections for threatened and endangered wildlife and their habitat.
✅ Voted “Aye” on the motion to proceed to S.J. Res. 69 (Senate Roll Call Vote 597), a joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act to bring the measure before the Senate for consideration to overturn the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Barred Owl Management Strategy, which authorized the large-scale killing of barred owls in Washington, Oregon, and California. An “Aye” vote is the pro-animal position because it supported moving forward with a vote to repeal the barred owl kill plan.