A bipartisan House duo today planned to introduce a bill to stop the U.S. National Institutes of Health from dumping billions more of taxpayer dollars into overseas animal testing where critics claim the critters are tortured and maimed.

The “CARGO Act” would require that no NIH money be spent on overseas animal testing in large part because the U.S. has little oversight over what occurs in those labs.

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