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March 14, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) released the following statement after the CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), a major American trade group, endorsed Chairman Gallagher’s BIOSECURE Act and announced that WuXi AppTec would exit the membership organization.
Issues: Biosecurity

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bio hearing
March 7, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party held a hearing titled "Growing Stakes: The Bioeconomy and American National Security." Witnesses included Dr. Jason Kelly, CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks, Dr. Tara O'Toole, Senior Fellow at In-Q-Tel, and Dr. Charles Clancy, Chief Technology Officer at MITRE

 

Issues: Biosecurity

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bio hearing
March 7, 2024

Read the FULL Transcript of the hearing HERE.

Issues: Biosecurity

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bio hearing
March 7, 2024

Click HERE for Chairman Gallagher's opening remarks as prepared for delivery.

Read Dr. Jason Kelly's testimony HERE.

Issues: Biosecurity

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wuxi
March 5, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding a U.S. trade group, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), lobbying on behalf of Wuxi Apptec, a Chinese company deeply entrenched with the People’s Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party. 

Chairman Gallagher asked Attorney General Garland to review BIO’s lobbying on behalf of WuXi Apptec in the context of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

Issues: Biosecurity

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wuxi
March 5, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding a U.S. trade group, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), lobbying on behalf of Wuxi Apptec, a Chinese company deeply entrenched with the People’s Liberation Army and the Chinese Communist Party. 

Chairman Gallagher asked Attorney General Garland to review BIO’s lobbying on behalf of WuXi Apptec in the context of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

Issues: Biosecurity

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Event Date:
Thursday, March 7, 2024 – 09:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Address:
HVC-210, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
Washington D.C. , District of Columbia  
United States
WASHINGTON D.C. -- The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party will hold a hearing titled "Growing Stakes: The Bioeconomy and American National Security" on March 7th at 9:00 a.m., E.T. in HVC-210, U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Washington D.C. The hearing was previously scheduled on February 13th in Boston, MA.

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harvard
February 13, 2024

BOSTON, MA — Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Reps. Darin LaHood (R-IL), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Neal Dunn (R-FL), and Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were in Boston yesterday, where they met with leaders of the U.S. biotechnology industry to discuss the Chinese Communist Party threat to U.S. biosecurity and how U.S. companies can better compete on the global stage.

 

Issues: Biosecurity Critical Infrastructure/Cyber

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Harvard
February 13, 2024

BOSTON, MA — Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Reps. Darin LaHood (R-IL), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Neal Dunn (R-FL), and Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were in Boston yesterday, where they met with leaders of the U.S. biotechnology industry to discuss the Chinese Communist Party threat to U.S. biosecurity and how U.S. companies can better compete on the global stage.

 


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wuxi
February 12, 2024
Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), alongside Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) and Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), sent a letter to the Departments of Treasury, Defense, and Commerce calling on them to investigate Chinese biotech company, WuXi AppTec, and its subsidiaries, citing WuXi AppTec’s alarming ties to the Chinese military (the People's Liberation Army or PLA), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the CCP’s human rights abuses.
Issues: Biosecurity