The following are excerpts of remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) on Ukrainian Independence Day at Memorial Park in Neptune City: Last August 24th—on the 30th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence—Ukrainian air force jets led by “best pilot” Anton Lystopad (who was born in the year of Ukraine’s independence) flew over Kiev in celebration. One year later—and just a few days ago— President Zelensky honored him with the Order of Courage award for his “bravery and professionalism.” A few days... Read more

By Nicolas Fernandes | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The Army Corps of Engineers will visit the Manasquan Inlet next week to survey a large sandbar that has formed in the waterway, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-4th Dist., said Wednesday. Sands at the inlet have shifted before, but the low-tide sandbar is larger than anything seen there before, the congressman said. “We are gravely concerned that it will pose a serious hazard to navigation,” Smith said. The Corps’ survey will determine any actions that ... Read more

Karen Wall, Patch Staff Posted Sat, Aug 20, 2022 — An emergency survey of shoaling and a sandbar on the Point Pleasant Beach side of the Manasquan Inlet shows the inlet channel is safe for boat traffic, officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Friday. Rep. Chris Smith, who represents New Jersey's 4th District, pressed the Army Corps to conduct the emergency survey after boat captains raised their concerns about the shoaling to Smith. The sonar survey was conducted Thursday afternoon,... Read more

In response to the recent dramatic build-up of sand in the Manasquan Inlet, Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) today met with top officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review the results of its emergency survey conducted on Thursday at Smith’s request. “The Army Corps completed a sonar survey of the Inlet yesterday and reported that although there is some shoaling against the southern jetty, the channel is safe for boat traffic—including the larger commercial vessels,” said Rep. Smith... Read more

By NF Staff The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making an emergency survey of the Manasquan Inlet next week to assess a large and potentially dangerous sandbar that has developed in the inlet, which is located at Mile Zero of the New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway (NJICW), about six miles south of Shark River and 13 miles to the northeast of Toms River, N.J. The Corps visit is a result of Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) meeting with various leaders in the New Jersey fishing industry while surveying the in... Read more

By Dan Radel, APP Staff The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will return to Manasquan Inlet next week to do an emergency survey of the growing sandbar issue, said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. A sandbar, or shoal, has been forming in the inlet for most of the summer, which the Corps said is likely being caused by the strong southerly wave energy that the Jersey Shore has been experiencing this summer. The shoal has become a concern of fishing boat captains who navigate the inlet daily. Local officia... Read more

By: News 12 Staff Ocean waves have been breaking the wrong way between Manasquan and Point Pleasant Beach, forming a huge sandbar that threatens boat traffic in and out of area. Queen Mary Capt. Cole Riebak, who sails through here every day with his father, says that weeks of southerly winds scoured sand from replenished beaches along Barnegat Bay Island, south of the inlet, and dumped it in the channel. He says about a third of the narrow inlet is now unpassable, and a closure would be devastat... Read more

Rep. Smith (left) holds a telephone conference on Monday, August 15th with Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Brigantti of the Philadelphia District of the Army Corps of Engineers and Captain Howard Bogan (right) of the fishing vessel Jamaica from the docks of Bogan’s Basin in Brielle. Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) announced today that the Army Corps of Engineers will return to the Manasquan Inlet next week to assess the large and potentially dangerous sandbar that has developed in the busy waterway af... Read more

By Zelda Caldwell for CNA July 16, 2022 Catholic News Agency China is exploiting children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, forcing them to work under hazardous conditions to mine the cobalt that powers electronic devices and electric cars, witnesses at a congressional hearing on human rights violations testified this week. “On the backs of trafficked workers and child laborers, China exploits the vast cobalt resources of the DRC to fuel its economy and global agenda,” said Rep. Christopher ... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today released the following statement: “I strongly oppose and voted “no” on the insultingly-named “Inflation Reduction Act.” At a time when Americans are suffering the effects of a decades-high, crushing inflation—and as economic data show that the US has entered a recession—the timing and substance of the Democrats’ bill is an unmitigated economic disaster. Experts who have reviewed the legislation—including those at the Penn Wharton Budget Model and the nonpartisan Con... Read more