Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Designate CCP a Transnational Organized Crime Group

House Homeland Security Committee's Oversight and Management Efficiency Subcommittee Chairman Scott Perry (R-PA) holds a hearing about the possibility of transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees out of Cuba and into the United States in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 28, 2016. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) on Oct. 1 introduced a bill to designate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a “transnational criminal organization” and eliminate sovereign immunity for Chinese officials—which would allow them to be tried in U.S. court for criminal prosecution.

Perry on Thursday morning introduced the legislation with Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) that would add the CCP to the Department of Justice’s Top International Criminal Organizations Target (TICOT) list.