Bicameral Republican Bill Would Return Chinese Science Institute to Entity List
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced a bill May 15 that would put China’s Institute of Forensic Science (IFS) back on the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Entity List.
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The Confronting CCP Human Rights Abusers Act would reverse the Biden administration’s 2023 decision to remove the IFS from the list to encourage China to stop producing and exporting fentanyl precursor chemicals (see 2311160003). Congressional Republicans had opposed the removal, citing the lab’s role in human rights abuses, such as using biometric data to track its citizens (see 2308030022).
The bill, which Ogles previously introduced in the last Congress (see 2406270065), is co-sponsored by Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar, R-Mich. It was referred to the Senate Banking Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.