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Rep Chris Smith discusses his legislation to ban US funding for UNRWA: 'a child soldier factory'
February 10, 2024
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Co-Chair of the Israel Allies Caucus, joins Fox News Live to discuss his legislation to end US funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The discussion comes just days after Smith’s legislation cleared a major hurdle, winning support from the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a vote to send the bill to the House Floor for consideration and passage.
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Press conference on the growing concerns over the WHO 'pandemic treaty'
February 5, 2024
Amid the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mad dash to finalize the text of a so-called “pandemic treaty” for a vote during May’s World Health Assembly, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) hosts a press conference with key experts highlighting major concerns surrounding the proposed treaty—including the lack of transparency, the backroom negotiations, WHO overreach and infringement on US sovereignty, unknown financial obligations for US taxpayers, threats to intellectual property rights and free speech, fun...
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Rep. Smith’s opening remarks at hearing on the harmful effects of offshore wind industrialization
January 20, 2024
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) delivers opening remarks at a hearing on the harmful effects of offshore wind industrialization on our environment, marine life, and economy. The hearing, chaired by Rep. Andy Harris, MD (R-MD) and attended by Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), was held in Ocean City, Maryland and adds to expert testimony provided at a critical hearing in Wildwood, NJ in March 2023.
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Rep Chris Smith (R-NJ): An urgent appeal to let Bishop Alvarez go
November 30, 2023
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the House Global Human Rights Subcommittee, delivers opening remarks at his congressional hearing urging for the immediate release of imprisoned Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez—the only known cleric to remain incarcerated by Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega and his brutal regime.
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Smith presses Biden officials on rampant antisemitism at UN agency that receives US taxpayer funds
November 9, 2023
At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) presses two high-ranking Biden officials on the rampant antisemitism that pervades the United Nations’ many agencies and bodies—especially and including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which receives US taxpayer funding from the Biden Administration. Smith's exchange at the hearing includes Barbara Leaf—the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Near East Affairs—and Dana Stroul, the Defen...
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Rep Chris Smith: Israel is facing an existential threat
October 21, 2023
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Co-Chair of the Israel Allies Caucus, joins Fox News Live on Saturday to discuss the latest developments coming out of the Middle East—where Israel faces an existential threat from Hamas, whose 1988 Charter calls for destroying every Jew and annihilating Israel. Smith, who serves as Co-Chair of the House Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, also calls out the outrageous false accusations against Israel being push...
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