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Rep. Chris Smith speaks as part of a panel with local law enforcement officers, grassroots non-profit humanitarian leaders and a trafficking survivor at the Monmouth County Human Trafficking Symposium in Freehold. Organized by Monmouth County Sheriff Shaun Golden, the event was aimed at enhancing awareness about the scourge of modern-day slavery and highlighting efforts at the local, state and federal levels to combat one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the world.
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Holding the Biden Administration accountable for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal June 6, 2023 Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today welcomed the unprecedented agreement reached by Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to allow members of the Foreign Affairs Committee to view the dissent channel cable that was sent by 23 officials at the US Embassy in Kabul just one month before President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. “The Biden Administration has failed to provide the truth to the American pe... More
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Navy officials brief grieving mother on long-overdue investigation into the tragic death of SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen May 25, 2023 More than 15 months after Navy SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen tragically died after completing the notorious “Hell Week” training, top Navy officials today briefed his grieving mother Regina and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) on the findings of their long-anticipated “command” investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of her 24-year-old son from Manalapan, New Jersey. Among its conclusions, the investigation identified “failures across multiple systems that led to a number of candidates b... More
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On the new national strategy to combat the surge in antisemitism May 25, 2023 Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the House Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, today issued the following statement on the new national strategy released by the Biden Administration aimed at addressing the surge in antisemitic hate across the United States: “There are many good things about the plan—above all I welcome the attention it pays to community/physical security, to the problems of getting better reporting and law enforcement responses to antisemitic violence and harassment, and... More
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Demand free, fair and inclusive elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo May 24, 2023 Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee, and Co-Chair of the T... More
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On eve of National Missing Children’s Day Smith calls on Biden Administration to take stronger steps to bring home hundreds of American children who have been abducted overseas May 23, 2023 At a congressional hearing today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) together with left-behind American parents whose children have been abducted overseas called on the Biden Administration to take stronger steps to help bring home hundreds of American children through more robust implementation of the Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act. “The Goldman Act empowered the State Department to seek the return of American children, yet the Department has never used the... More
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