{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-senate-passes-paul-booker-bipartisan-fda-modernization-act-20-end-animal-testing-mandates/", "Senate Passes Paul, Booker Bipartisan FDA Modernization Act 2.0 to End Animal Testing Mandates", "2022-09-29", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nSeptember 29, 2022\n\nContact: Press_Paul@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senator Rand Paul\u2019s (R-KY) and Senator Cory Booker\u2019s (D-NJ) bipartisan FDA Modernization Act 2.0 to end animal testing mandates.\n\nThis legislation ends an outdated FDA mandate that experimental drugs must be tested on animals before they are used on humans in clinical trials. The bill doesn\u2019t ban animal testing outright but would allow the option for drug sponsors to use alternative methods where they are suitable.\n\nThe legislation is cosponsored by Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-NM), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus King (D-ME), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Rick Scott (R-FL). The bill will now head to the U.S. House of Representatives.\n\n\u201cThe FDA Modernization Act 2.0 will accelerate innovation and get safer, more effective drugs to market more quickly by cutting red tape that is not supported by current science, and I\u2019m proud to have led the charge. The passage of this bipartisan bill is a step toward ending the needless suffering and death of animal test subjects \u2013 which I\u2019m glad both Republicans and Democrats can agree needs to end,\u201d said Dr. Paul.\n\n\u201cLawmakers from both parties recognize that the United States must lift an archaic animal-testing mandate for drug development and replace that strategy with 21st-century methods grounded on human biology,\u201d said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy. \u201cThis is the biggest policy development in Congressional history on the fight to replace animal testing with morally and scientifically superior methods.\u201d\n\nAhead of the bill passing in the Senate by unanimous consent, Dr. Paul spoke on the Senate floor. You can watch his full remarks HERE.\n\nBackground:\n\nIn 1938, Congress passed the U.S. Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, mandating animal toxicity testing. Since then, science and data has shown that in some products, animal testing is a highly inconsistent predictor of toxic responses in humans, all while animal testing on any single pharmaceutical product often requires killing hundreds of animal test subjects.\n\nLast October, Dr. Rand Paul and Sen. Cory Booker introduced the first FDA Modernization Act, and in the spirit of the bill, Dr. Paul hosted a Puppy Press Conference.\n\nYou can read the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:29:59Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.paul.senate.gov/news-senate-passes-paul-booker-bipartisan-fda-modernization-act-20-end-animal-testing-mandates/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7728049531579018, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}