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Rep. Smith debates in favor of his Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act
September 10, 2024
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, debates on the House Floor in favor of his Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act. Smith’s legislation would empower the President to effectively terminate the operations of Hong Kong’s official representative offices in Washington, New York, and San Francisco since the U.S. no longer recognizes Hong Kong as autonomous following the Chinese Communist Party's imposition of its National Sec...
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Rep. Chris Smith asks Secretary Blinken to help American children who have been abducted to Japan
May 22, 2024
At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) asks Secretary of State Antony Blinken to help American children who have been abducted to Japan. Smith, a renowned human rights defender, is the author of the groundbreaking US law to combat international parental child abduction—the Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2014.
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Brazil: A crisis of democracy, freedom, and rule of law?
May 7, 2024
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) delivers opening remarks while chairing a congressional hearing that examined the extensive evidence of widespread censorship and persecution in Brazil used to stifle opposition to President Lula, raising alarming concerns over the future of democracy and rule of law in the largest country in Latin America.
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Rep Chris Smith (R-NJ) debates in favor of critical military assistance for Israel
April 20, 2024
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) takes to the House Floor during debate and urges his colleagues to pass legislation (HR 8034) that would provide more than $26 billion in critical military assistance to Israel while prohibiting any US funds from flowing to the failed and pervasively antisemitic United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza.
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