Washington, Sept. 16 -- Congressman Rich McCormick issued the following press release:

Today, Congressman Rich McCormick (GA-07), Chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, chaired a hearing examining America's biotechnology leadership, federal oversight of high-risk biological research, and the growing biotechnology race with the Chinese Communist Party.

The Subcommittee heard testimony from Dr. Anemone Franz, Visiting Research Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Mr. Joshua Hodges, Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Dr. Gigi Gronvall, Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

"American biotechnology has long been one of our n...