Tim Ballard, the former Homeland Security agent whose incredible work is recounted in the summer blockbuster movie “Sound of Freedom,” today offered stark testimony about the plight of child trafficking spurred by the chaos at the US southern border and the United States’ concerning role in the sex tourism industry at a congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a longtime leader in the fight against human trafficking. “The United States is generally understood to be the #1 consu... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) today said Ocean County will receive a federal Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) grant of $1,867,163 to install a plastic film air conveyance system and baler, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered optical classification system and technology to analyze the waste stream, as well as a secondary eddy current separator. “This grant will help the county modernize its long-running recycling efforts,” said Smith. “The county first launched its recyclin... Read more

At a press conference on Capitol Hill today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a longtime leader in the fight against human trafficking, introduced new legislation that requires the Biden Administration to locate the 85,000 unaccompanied migrant children it has lost contact with in the United States. “The Biden Administration must be held accountable for its failed open border policies that have put tens of thousands of children in grave danger and at great risk of death, child sexual exploitation and a... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a longtime leader in the fight against human trafficking, and Tim Ballard, whose story is recounted in the summer blockbuster movie “Sound of Freedom,” join Martha MacCallum on Fox News to discuss Smith’s new legislation—the SECURE Act—that requires the Biden Administration to locate the 85,000 unaccompanied migrant children it has lost contact with in the United States who are at grave risk of death, sexual exploitation and abuse: Read more

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