[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 21 (Thursday, February 4, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H337]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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               CHINA CONTINUES TO SEEK GENETIC TECHNOLOGY

  (Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina. Madam Speaker, today I would like to 
bring attention to a troubling assessment that was issued by the 
National Counterintelligence and Security Center on Monday.
  China continues to aggressively seek to acquire Americans' genetic 
information. They have targeted American hotels. They have targeted 
government agencies, as well as our universities, through hacks and 
ill-intentioned partnerships. They recently even tried to buy fertility 
clinics in the United States to gather American DNA.
  And as was catalogued on ``60 Minutes'' last week, the Chinese are 
now targeting family research databases that Americans innocently use 
to research their family trees.
  Make no mistake, our healthcare information can be and will be used 
against us. The Chinese have already demonstrated the lengths to which 
they are willing to go to use genetics against their own people as they 
experiment on the Uighurs in the Xinjiang province. This threat cannot 
be ignored.
  China has already received personally identifying information on most 
Americans. As citizens, we must take better control of our information, 
and Congress must act to keep this problem from getting worse.

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