WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - The Democratic and

Republican leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee

said on Wednesday they were encouraged by the House's passage of

a bill that would force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to

divest from the app's U.S. assets or face a ban.

"(We) look forward to working together to get this bill

passed through the Senate and signed into law," Senators Mark

Warner and Marco Rubio, the committee's Democratic chair and

Republican vice chair, said in a joint statement.