WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced bipartisan legislation to close regulatory loopholes giving way to unauthorized bio labs like the one recently discovered (https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/las-vegas-bio-lab-raid-possibly-tied-to-california-case-federal-chinese-investigation/) in Las Vegas. The Preventing Illegal Laboratories and Protecting Public Health Act strengthens federal oversight of highly pathogenic agents and high-containment laboratories to protect Americans from the threat of deadly illnesses.
On January 31st, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investiga...