WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Humane Society on Wednesday presented Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel) with an award for his leadership on animal protection legislation in 2009.

“Even as Congress and the president work to address our economic woes, we must find time to support those issues that define us as a society,” Rep. Farr said. “We can’t overlook the widespread abuse that occurs in puppy mills across the country, and we can’t ignore the declining number of sea otters off our coast. These are important issues too, and I’m proud to support them.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The League of Conservations Voters this week awarded Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel) a perfect 100 percent rating on its annual National Environmental Scorecard.

The scorecard is used by the group as a yardstick to rate members of Congress on environmental, public health and energy issues.

Washington, DC – The League of Conservations Voters (LCV), which works to turn environmental values into national priorities, today released the 2009 National Environmental Scorecard. For 30 years, the National Environmental Scorecard issued by LCV has been the nationally accepted yardstick used to rate members of Congress on environmental, public health and energy issues.

(Washington, D.C.)—Federally Employed Women (FEW) has released the results of its scorecard for the first session of the 111th Congress. “We want to send a heartfelt and grateful thank-you to Rep. Sam Farr (CA-17) for scoring 100% on the Scorecard and we certainly appreciate all his support of federal workers in general and federally employed women in particular,” announced Sue Webster, FEW’s National President.