Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the House global health subcommittee, today issued the following statement on the Biden Administration’s plans to surrender U.S. sovereignty to the World Health Organization at the upcoming World Health Assembly: “The Biden Administration’s absurd proposal to surrender U.S. sovereignty to the corrupt World Health Organization (WHO) is an egregious breach of constitutional principle that will lead to less accountability and more misconduct by this probl... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) speaks with NJ Spotlight News Anchor Briana Vannozzi on the new legislation he co-sponsored aimed at bolstering the U.S. baby formula supply amid the alarming national shortage and strengthening its resilience to supply chain disruptions to prevent a future crisis. Click here or on the image below to watch the interview; or click here to read more about Smith’s efforts. Read more

By: Kurt Jensen | Catholic News Service U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., called forced organ harvesting in China “a horror story” that is affecting tens of thousands of individuals” of “various religions” who are killed there “for body parts, including skin.” On May 12, Smith, a Catholic, led a discussion of organ harvesting at an online hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, which he co-chairs. The hearing was prompted by an April 4 article published in the American Journal of Transpl... Read more

TOMS RIVER, NJ — For years, veterans in Ocean County have been telling anyone who would listen that they needed better access to health care. They needed specialists. They needed mental health services. They needed parking. On Monday, all of those requests, and years of urging by state, local and federal officials culminated in the groundbreaking for the VA's new Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Toms River. Veterans groups and officials from around the area celebrated what VA officials call... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today joined local and county officials in Toms River to mark the groundbreaking for a new Veterans Affairs (VA) clinic, which will replace Ocean County’s Brick clinic that Smith secured in 1991 but can no longer accommodate the large veterans population in the area. “A grateful nation must put veterans first and ensure that their sacrifice is tangibly recognized in both word and deed,” said Rep. Smith, who has authored more than a dozen laws improving educational, homel... Read more

Amid the alarming shortage of baby formula gripping the nation, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) this week pushed for new legislation—the Formula Act of 2022 (H.R. 7718)—intended to bolster the U.S. infant formula supply and help strengthen its resilience to supply chain disruptions to prevent a future crisis. “As millions of American families scramble to feed their infants, President Biden has failed to take effective action to resolve this life-or-death crisis and ensure parents have access to this cr... Read more

At a human rights hearing today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) forced harvesting of organs from living prisoners, calling for an “immediate concerted effort to stop this barbaric practice—not only in China, but also by its global enablers.” Chaired by Smith, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing comes on the heels of the groundbreaking article recently published in a top, peer-reviewed U.S. medical journal citing overwhelming evidence of the CCP’... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) this week cosponsored new legislation (H.R. 7690) to defund the Biden Administration’s so-called “Disinformation Governance Board”—the taxpayer-funded initiative posing threats to free speech that was recently announced by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The bill—introduced by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy—would prohibit the use of federal funds to establish or carry out the DHS Disinformation Governance Board or any other simil... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and Ranking Member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, today released the following statement on the recent arrest of Hong Kong Cardinal Zen and other democracy advocates: “The arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen and other democracy advocates by Hong Kong police is an egregious abuse of human rights and religious freedom that should chill freedom-loving people the world over. The persecution of Cardinal Zen, f... Read more

Jerry Carino Asbury Park Press USA TODAY NETWORK – NEW JERSEY Page 1 In January, Bill Borowsky Jr. was discharged from the Marine Corps for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccination. Now the lifelong Point Pleasant resident is supporting a bill introduced by Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Smith that would require reinstatement of service members who opted not to be vaccinated. The bill (H.R. 7570) seeks “to establish certain protections for individuals involuntarily separated from the Armed Forces so... Read more