Bipartisan forces join to stop testing on 100 million animals a year

A bipartisan coalition of House and Senate lawmakers and outside groups has opened a new push to limit and eventually halt drug testing on animals, working to end a Depression-era federal mandate that foes claim isn’t needed anymore.

Chief sponsor Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday, “I think there’s a reasonable chance that we might find something that we could actually pass through a bipartisan — maybe even a unanimous — bill.”