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WOBM news article on Smith Pt Pleasant Beach announcement'Point Pleasant Beach will soon be getting repairs to the dunes'
June 25, 2019

BY VIN EBENAU, WOBM/Townsquare Media - Point Pleasant Beach will finally see some upgrades to its beaches after Jersey Shore Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ, Monmouth, Ocean and Mercer Counties) announced that the Army Corps of Engineers negotiated a contract to get dredging work done in the borough. The beach replenishment contractor, Weeks Marine, will be returning to Point Pleasant Beach to pump additional sand in sections that experienced significant erosion during May's severe weather storms.... More

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Pt. Pleasant Beach to be final part of largest beach-fill project in USACE history:Smith: USACE to Try Again. Will Return to Pt Pleasant Beach with Work Set to Resume June 27th
June 24, 2019
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today announced that beach replenishment contractor Weeks Marine will return to Point Pleasant Beach, perhaps as early as this week, and pump additional sand in sections that experienced significant erosion during severe May weather. “The Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) informed me that it negotiated a $3.6 million contract modification to get the dredges back to Point Pleasant Beach,” said Smith. “This is the largest contract of its kind in the history of the U.S. Army C... More

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Rep. Smith on the Release of the State Dept.’s Int’l Religious Freedom Report
June 21, 2019

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Global Human Rights and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, welcomed today’s release of the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report. “The State Department’s annual report on religious freedom is critical for the shaping of U.S. policy and priorities,” said Smith, author of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2016, which gave the State Department expanded authority an... More

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China scores lowest mark of Tier 3Author of America’s Landmark Human Trafficking Law Calls TIP Report ‘Game-Changer'
June 20, 2019

The author of America’s landmark human trafficking law, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), called the 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released today by the Trump Administration “honest, tough, comprehensive—a game-changer.” Each year, pursuant to Smith’s law—the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 (P.L. 106-386)—the State Department assesses every country’s record on sex and labor trafficking, and focuses on prevention of trafficking, protection of victims, and prosecution of traffi... More

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Sami's Law:Smith-Cardin Introduce Legislation to Improve Ride-Share Safety
June 14, 2019
Bipartisan, bicameral legislation named to honor Samantha Josephson—a senior at the University of South Carolina who was kidnapped and brutally murdered by a man pretending to be her Uber driver—was introduced in both the House and Senate today to establish needed protections for ride-share customers across the country. Named Sami’s Law, the bill, authored by Republican Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) with lead Democratic cosponsor, Rep. Tom Suozzi (NY-03) in the House, HR 3262, and led in the Senate b... More

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