“Today the House took the responsible and critical step to protect all Americans from the largest tax increase in our history, secure our borders to stop the flow of human trafficking and fentanyl and rebuild our military after years of neglect, while protecting fundamental programs such as Medicaid...
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Congressman Smith recently announced the winners of his 2025 High School Art Competition at a Brick, NJ ceremony. Part of a national program, talented student artists across his district from Monmouth and Ocean counties participated in the annual contest.
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An Offshore Wind Energy report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) gives credibility and vindication to concerns first raised in Congress by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) that offshore wind turbines pose threats to national security and aviation and maritime safety by interfering ...
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Rep. Chris Smith chaired a bipartisan congressional hearing March 12, 2025 on religious freedom vilations in Nigeria.
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Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), along with Vice President JD Vance, today addressed the 20th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.
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U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ04) addresses the thousands of marchers who attended the 2025 March for Life in Washington D.C.
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Comprehensive legislation authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) to provide robust funding and enhanced support for Americans with autism was signed into law on Monday, December 23rd. Smith’s Autism CARES Act of 2024 will provide more than $1.95 billion over five years.
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The House of Representatives passed an amendment on July 20, 2023 offered by Rep. Smith that requires President Biden or his designee to certify that the thousands of offshore wind turbines slated for some of the nation's busiest airspace will not interfere with commercial or military aviation activ...
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Rep. Chris Smith joins Martha MacCallum on Fox News to discuss his ongoing efforts to get answers about the unidentified drone activity storming New Jersey skies and his call for Defense Secretary Austin to provide all capabilities to identify and respond to the possible threats.
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At a ceremony in Toms River, Rep. Smith was joined by veterans and other officials to cut the ribbon for the new veterans clinic on Hooper Avenue, which will replace the Brick clinic that Smith secured in the 1980s and has now been expanded to accommodate the growing veteran population in the area.
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At the request of Rep. Chris Smith, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began dredging the Manasquan Inlet on Tuesday, August 6 to address the dangerous build-up of sand that began to develop over the weekend along the jetty on the Point Pleasant Beach side of channel.
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A recognized international leader in the fight against human trafficking, Rep. Chris Smith recently chaired a hearing examining the 2024 Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Report, which is mandated by Smith’s landmark Trafficking Victims Protection Act that was enacted in 2000.
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At a congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Chris Smith, a panel of experts debunked the UN’s so-called "independent review" of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), exposing the report’s findings as predetermined in order to reassure donors.
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On Fox News, Rep. Smith discusses the genocidal attacks against Israel and Hamas’ unbridled, deadly antisemitism that has led to the massive slaughter of innocent Israelis. Smith also calls on Biden to help US citizens evacuate the country and to stand in absolute solidarity with Israel.
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The House recently passed the State Foreign Operations Appropriations bill that includes strong provisions to protect unborn children and their mothers and reverses President Biden’s hijacking of PEPFAR—the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief—to promote abortion.
Learn MoreAt a widely attended human rights forum on Capitol Hill this week, Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, underscored the severity and intensity of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s campaigns to suppress and silence the voices... READ MORE
Alarming accounts of growing repression at the hands of the government of Pakistan, targeting political opposition figures, independent journalists, and the blocking of free and fair elections in Pakistan were the focuses of a bipartisan congressional hearing chaired Tuesday by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chairman of the Tom Lantos... READ MORE
New legislation to reauthorize the nation’s federal efforts to fight Lyme disease was announced yesterday on Capitol Hill. Known as the TICK Act, the bill authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) with lead sponsors Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-NJ) and Paul Tonko (D-NY), will provide continued funding for Lyme disease resear... READ MORE
Excerpts of remarks by Rep. Chris Smith, Co-Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, at the commission's July 15, 2025 hearing in Washington, DC: Today’s hearing of the Lantos Commission focusing on Pakistan’s Ongoing Political Repression, will come to order. Welcome—and special thanks—to our very distinguished panel of experts... READ MORE
Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, will chair a hearing on the ongoing repression of political opposition by the government of Pakistan. Accounts and evidence will be heard about the government persecuting political figures of the opposition and journalists, and controlling media communi... READ MORE
By Dan Radel - Asbury Park Press staff The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will install new fencing around the entire perimeter of the Point Pleasant Canal at a cost of $3 million, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith announced. The fencing there now is inadequate and falling into disrepair, Smith, R-N.J., said. “I alerted the Army Corps to the deteriorati... READ MORE