By Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Payments for canceled trips that haven’t been refunded. Products ordered online but were never received. Texts touting fake cures for the coronavirus. Americans have filed more than 31,000 complaints with the Federal Trade Commission claiming losses of more than $40 million through Tuesday due to fraud, newly released statistics show. The category includes travel expenses that haven’t been refunded, and online purchases that show up late or no... Read more

By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman, TRENTONIAN STAFF - Democrats and Republicans have increasingly become more critical of China as the COVID-19 pandemic endures. But GOP Congressman Chris Smith, a longtime New Jersey politician, has been sounding the alarm on Chinese Communist Party politics for years. The state-affiliated Global Times newspaper, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and many others describe as the official “Chinese government’s mouthpiece,” has blasted Smith in a recent English language arti... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), author of the House-passed Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act and who has promoted human rights as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for forty years, said: "Xi Jinping’s dictatorship is an existential threat to the people of Hong Kong, China itself, countries in the region and over time, the world. After years of human rights admonishment and cheap rhetoric devoid of any meaningful penalties, Xi has concluded that the West is all talk, no action. Presid... Read more

By Paul D. Shinkman, Senior Writer, National Security May 29, 2020, at 6:00 a.m. WHEN PRESIDENT BILL Clinton was pushing for a trade deal with China in 2000, he referenced Hong Kong to address broad concerns about Beijing's civil rights abuses and territorial threats, specifically a letter he received from the founder of Hong Kong's Democratic Party and longtime human rights activist Martin Lee. Clinton read from Lee's letter in a speech at Johns Hopkins University that March: "'This agreement,'... Read more

More federal funding to combat opioid addiction and other addictions in Monmouth and Ocean counties has been announced by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ). “This grant funding comes at a crucial time for people who are recovering from addictions or facing mental illness in the Ocean County and Monmouth County areas,” Smith said. /* custom css */ .td_uid_2_5eda4aea81e38_rand.td-a-rec-img { text-align: left; } .td_uid_2_5eda4aea81e38_rand.td-a-rec-img img { margin: 0 auto 0 0; } “The isolation that ... Read more

Key bipartisan legislation to extend and enhance the Paycheck Protection Program, which is helping sustain businesses and pay workers during the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, passed the House of Representatives May 28. Rep. Chris Smith, who supported the creation of the PPP and subsequent legislation nearly doubling its funding, said the new Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, HR 7010, is needed to make the program easier, more accessible and more realistic as businesses dea... Read more

In response to Secretary Mike Pompeo that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ranking Member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, said the following: Smith said: "The United States and the world can no longer enable—however unwittingly—the Chinese government's massive crimes against humanity including violations of the Basic Law and, as Secretary Pompeo stated today, the loss of auto... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) gave remarks on the floor of the House today during consideration of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act. The bill passed 413-1. The following are excerpts of his statement: Madame Speaker, Communist party general secretary Xi Jinping’s ongoing genocide against the approximately 10 million Uyghurs living in Xinjiang in northwestern China demands action. Today, more than a million Uyghurs are in concentration camps. Millions more are harassed, beaten, raped and tortured. S ... Read more

The winners of the 2020 Congressional Art Competition were announced today by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), who sponsors the annual competition and art show for high school students in the Fourth Congressional District as part of the nationwide competition organized by the Congressional Institute to help recognize and foster artistic talent in each congressional district. “We’re glad this event, though modified, remained popular and competitive ensuring that NJ-04 high school artists, who had... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith met with captains and customers over the Memorial Day weekend as they boarded local vessels and kicked-off the 2020 fluke fishing season. Smith has been working with the United Boatmen and Recreational Fishing Alliance, and their effective representative, Ray Bogan, to urge Governor Murphy to reopen the fishing boats at a capacity that is both safe and economically viable. News of the change came Friday morning. Click here or image below to watch News12 clip. This clip ran numer... Read more