U.S. Republicans push anti-China bill, but passage unlikely in election year

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Republican lawmakers have introduced a comprehensive anti-China bill that would reshape the two countries' economic relationship, but the proposed law faces long odds in a presidential election year where Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.

Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, who chairs the Republican Study Committee, spoke Friday at the Hudson Institute, a conservative Washington-based think tank, about the Countering Communist China Act, a bill his committee introduced last week.