By Marty Johnson, The Hill - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signed a bill on Friday that would make animal cruelty a federal crime… In a tweet, Pelosi said "Today, I was honored to sign @RepTedDeutch’s #PACTAct to make animal cruelty a federal offense."… The bill, dubbed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, was introduced by Deutch… It is a follow-up to the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act in 2010, and would ban animal crushing, or an act in which an animal "is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury."