The Government Accountability Office (GAO)—the independent congressional watchdog—has officially agreed to launch an investigation into the impacts of New Jersey’s offshore wind development on the environment, the fishing industry, military operations, navigational safety and more, announced Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today. “This aggressive, independent investigation into the ocean-altering impacts of the 3,400 offshore wind turbines slated for the Jersey Shore will help address the wide-ranging ...
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Pat McDaniel,Patch Staff Regina Mullen has finally received official acknowledgement of what she, as a nurse, has known for more than a year - that her son's death during Hell Week training in February 2022 came about from inadequate medical treatment. Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, announced Thursday that top Navy officials briefed him and Mullen, of Manalapan, on the findings of a long-anticipated “command” investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of her 24-year-old son, Kyl...
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While chairing a congressional hearing today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), called on United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres to use his influence to dissuade the Chinese government from forcibly repatriating an estimated 2,000 North Korean refugees who could face torture, sexual assault, forced abortion, forced labor, and possible execution upon their return. “Beijing must not be complicit in the plight of North Korean ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee, and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, today issued the following statement on recent developments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and grave concerns about the pending national elections there: “I strongly urge the Biden Administration and advocates of democracy around the world to support efforts by the Catholic and other churches in the...
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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...
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On Newsmax, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) discusses his full-court press—including his recent letter—to secure an independent investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) into the impacts of New Jersey’s unprecedented offshore wind development on the environment, the fishing industry, military operations, navigational safety and more. Smith’s letter comes after his amendment requiring a comprehensive GAO study garnered broad bipartisan support and passed the House in a vote of ...
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Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the House Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee, holds a draft of the World Health Organization pandemic treaty at a press conference outside the US Capitol on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the House Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee, announced he will be chairing a congressional hearing on the Biden Administration’s push to enter an internationa...
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