The follow are remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester): Twenty-two years later we remember the horror and pain suffered by the nearly 3,000 individuals who were murdered and the anguish felt by their families and friends both then and now. We remember and honor the courageous first responders running up the stairs of the burning buildings—with total disregard for their own safety—attempting to save others at the expense of their own lives. We remember and honor the heroic firefighters, police... Read more

The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach has officially acquired the historic United States Coast Guard (USCG) station on the Manasquan Inlet, announced Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) and Point Pleasant Beach Mayor Paul Kanitra today. “The Coast Guard station is nothing less than a national treasure—both for its part in the Coast Guard’s lifesaving search and rescue missions, as well as for its stunning architecture and design,” said Rep. Smith, who worked diligently with Mayor Kanitra and Point Pl... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, chairs an emergency congressional hearing on Nagorno-Karabakh, where 120,000 ethnic Armenians have been sealed off from food and medicine and are being starved to death by the government of Azerbaijan. At an emergency congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today, a leading international legal expert warned the United States is at risk of becoming complicit in an ongoing genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh, w... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) today issued the following statement on President Biden’s reported plan to send some of the tens of thousands of economic migrants who have recently arrived in New York City to Atlantic City International Airport: “President Biden’s plan to relocate economic migrants to Atlantic City International Airport and allow this growing crisis to spiral out of control by failing to secure our border is absolutely unconscionable. Biden’s disastrous open-border policies and... Read more

US Rep. Chris Smith, Chair of the United States congressional Global Human Rights subcommittee and the Co-Chairman of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and of the Congressional Poland Caucus, urges the US government to support Poland’s call for discussions with Germany on Poland’s losses in World War II. A leading voice pushing for human rights globally, Chairman Smith has long advocated on behalf of victims of human rights abuses, including that their property be restored and compensation... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today issued the following statement on the Biden Administration holding its first offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Idalia barrels toward the United States: “With the Gulf Coast bracing for its first major hurricane threat of the season, the Biden Administration continues its aggressive push for offshore wind industrialization as it foolishly ignores the real dangers of installing thousands of wind turbines—massive structures the size of the Chrys... Read more

At a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable discussion today, families of the 13 servicemembers who were tragically killed during the US evacuation from Afghanistan shared heartbreaking personal accounts of the excruciating pain and agony they have endured over the past two years as they continue to seek answers from the Biden Administration over its egregiously flawed withdrawal. “You have touched all of our hearts in the most profound way,” Rep. Smith, a senior member of the House Foreign... Read more

At a ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB-MDL) today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) joined Colonel Elizabeth Hanson, Colonel Anthony Smith, other top military officials and servicemembers of the 305th Air Mobility Wing to mark the grand opening of the new KC-46 two-bay hangar that will help house and maintain the Joint Base’s next generation refueling tanker jets. “Special thanks to the distinguished Commander of the 305th Air Mobility Wing Colonel Elizabeth Hanson and Colonel Ant... Read more

By Senior Airman Matt Porter 87th Air Base Wing The 305th Air Mobility Wing held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its newly commissioned ‘Dock 46 two-bay hangar’ at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on August 24, 2023. The event concludes four and a half years of planning and 240,650 accident-free man-hours after its initial groundbreaking on December 3, 2018. A military construction project valued at nearly $54 million, the hangar will serve as a mission-critical asset in the KC-46A Pegasus'... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, speaks outside the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. Outside the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, together with a group of Korean human rights defenders called on the Chinese government not to proceed with the forced repatriation of an estimated 2,000 North Korean refugees who face severe huma... Read more