WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) released the following statement on the bipartisan bill she is helping lead to combat illicit gold mining in our hemisphere after it advanced out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The bipartisan U.S. Legal Gold and Mining Partnership Act would require a multi-year, comprehensive strategy from the U.S. Secretary of State to combat illicit gold mining in the Western Hemisphere.
"Advancing this bipartisan bill is an important step towards developing a strategy to cut off a key source of funding for bad actors in the Western Hemisphere," said Senator Rosen. "Cartels illicitly mine and traffick gold to fund their criminal activit...