Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., told Newsmax on Friday that legislators “have to crack down on” animal testing by the federal government by passing her bill limiting “unnecessary and inhumane” experiments on animals.

Malliotakis and Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., introduced the Safeguard Pets, Animals, and Research Ethics (SPARE) Act at the end of last month, which would ban the testing of animals in federal labs with a three-year period to phase out animal testing and to establish a program to rehabilitate and re-home animals used in testing.

“The American people would be shocked to know that the U.S. government spends billions of dollars annually to conduct these unnecessary and inhumane experiments on dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, other animals, and some of them are just pure torture,” Malliotakis said on “Wake Up America.”

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