Combating Human Trafficking
Congressman Smith has chaired numerous hearings and is the prime sponsor of three major laws and several international resolutions aimed at combating Human Trafficking
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Two bills authored by Smith to fight against human trafficking taken up by the House.
The House passed HR 514, “Human Trafficking Prioritization Act” and HR 515 , “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Demand for Child Sex Trafficking,” both sponsored by Smith, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. HR 515 seeks to protect children from sexual predators seeking victims in other countries.
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WWII Vet Finally Receives POW Medal
U.S. Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) presented a long-overdue POW Medal to an Army veteran nearly 70 years to the day after he was captured by the Germans during the bloody Battle of the Bulge in January 1944. Francis B. Hayes, Jr. was with the 94th Infantry Division (ID) which sailed across the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth from New York on August 6, 1944. He was only 19.
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House Passes legislation authored by Rep. Smith to combat starvation and famine.
The House passed legislation authored by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), HR 5656, “The Global Food Security Act,” designed to help prevent starvation and famine, and reduce hunger and malnutrition by improving agriculture so countries can feed their own people.
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Smith chairs hearingIranian Human Rights Violations Focus of Congressional Hearing
Human rights abuses in Iran, including the holding of American prisoners and widespread persecution of religious minorities, were the topics of a House hearing Thursday held by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), chairman of the Africa and global human rights subcommittee, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the Middle East and North A... READ MORE
Smith Presses Secretary of State Kerry on Parental Child Abduction Cases
At a hearing today on Capitol Hill, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, the author of the Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction and Return Act (H.R. 3212, PL 113-150), urged Secretary John Kerry to get personally engaged in the proper implementation of the new law designed to help reunite parents and American children abducted and held ... READ MORE
The TelegraphHillary Clinton 'gave in' to China says Chen Guangcheng
Chen Guangcheng, right, Hillary Clinton, left Photo: Reuters; Getty Images By Peter Foster, Washington Bureau 8:00AM GMT 25 Feb 2015 Hillary Clinton’s account of one of her crowning moments as secretary of state has been flatly contradicted by a leading Chinese activist. Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer who escaped house arrest and caused... READ MORE