Enes Kanter Freedom—the former NBA star who lost his amazing 11-year basketball career in the league for his courageous stand for human rights against the Chinese Communist Party—testifies at Rep. Chris Smith's congressional hearing on US corporate complicity with Xi Jinping's communist regime. The following are excerpts of opening remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, at the congressional hearing he chaired today entitled "Corporate Compl...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) joins Martha MacCallum on Fox News to discuss New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's egregious taxpayer-funded bailout for foreign offshore wind corporation Orsted with federal tax credits that were intended for ratepayers:
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the House Global Health and Global Human Rights Subcommittee, today issued the following statement regarding Liberian efforts to expand abortion and promote population control: “The Liberian Senate must live up to its obligations to defend life at all stages from womb to tomb and must reject any changes to their national law that would weaken protections for unborn children, including proposals allowing unrestricted abortion until 18 weeks. Abortion takes the l...
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The following op-ed by The Washington Times Editorial Board discusses legislation authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) that would bar the importation of all goods containing cobalt, lithium and other rare earth minerals mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo through child exploitation and forced labor trafficking and would counter China’s control of strategic metals and minerals in the global supply chain:
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), the Chair of the House Global Human Rights subcommittee, today renewed his request to visit Bishop Rolando José Álvarez in Nicaragua: “I remain very concerned about the safety and wellbeing of Bishop Rolando José Álvarez amid inconsistent reports of his status in Nicaragua, and I renew my request to visit him there,” said Smith, who issued a letter to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega last month requesting a meeting with Bishop Álvarez. “Bishop Álvarez is a compassiona...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) today issued the following statement in response to the Biden Administration’s recent approval for Danish offshore wind developer Orsted to begin construction on New Jersey’s first offshore wind project: “The Biden Administration is once again recklessly greenlighting the unprecedented offshore wind industrialization of our shore before we know all of the potentially catastrophic impacts of these projects. Along with the significant environmental, economic and mi...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) chairs a congressional hearing on July 14, 2022 exposing the Chinese Communist Party's egregious exploitation of children in Africa—especially the labor trafficking of up to 40,000 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo—to mine cobalt, lithium and various rare earth minerals. Smith's new legislation—HR 4443—is drawn in part from insightful testimony from expert witnesses from his hearing. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on G...
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Citing Governor Phil Murphy’s own Division of Rate Counsel, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) today issued the following statement urging the New Jersey Legislature to reject legislation—A-5651 and S-4019—backed by the Governor that will redirect US federal tax credits to the Danish offshore wind company Orsted: “The hardworking people of New Jersey deserve better than Trenton’s plan to bail out foreign offshore wind corporation Orsted and give away billions of federal tax credits intended for ra...
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Congressman Chris Smith (R-Manchester) was the Keynote Speaker at the 2023 State Convention Department of New Jersey Jewish War Veterans (JWV) He met with outgoing State Commander Selina Kanowitz, and newly sworn in State Commander Chuck Greenberg at the June 25 event in Toms River. View slideshow at left. JWV national leadership attended the event, including National Commander Nelson Mellitz and National Vice Commander Barry Lischinsky, as well as outgoing Department of New Jersey War Veterans ...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision: “Dobbs is the game changer—and God-willing, the beginning of the end of the culture of death. It is an engraved invitation to policy makers at every level including Congress and the President to protect unborn children from the violence of abortion. The sacred burden to double down on our vital life-saving work has never been cleare...
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