Washington DC, Oct. 9 -- US lawmakers are urging Congress to pass bipartisan legislation to counter foreign governments' alleged attempts to intimidate and surveil individuals on American soil, following the Federal Bureau of Investigation's arrest of a woman accused of acting as an unregistered Chinese agent, The Epoch Times reported.

According to The Epoch Times, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China called on October 6 for the passage of the Transnational Repression Policy Act, stressing that foreign governments must not be allowed to intimidate or monitor people in the United States.

The appeal followed the October 4 arrest of Wanying Zhang, a California-based real estate agent and naturalised US citizen also known as Heat...