A bill that would direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ensure that companies that produce drugs for Americans do not have ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).

Cotton made the case for such a bill at a March Breitbart News policy event in Washington, DC, telling Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle China has used “illegitimate means” to corner the U.S. pharmaceutical market.

“Many of our — not super high-end, cutting-edge drugs, but just very basic medicines like ibuprofen and acetaminophen, penicillin, heparin,” Cotton mentioned…

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