The following are excerpts of remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) addressing the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey at its conference at the Borgata Hotel, Atlantic City, N.J. on Sunday Nov. 24: Congratulations to CPANJ’s new President—Angelo Onofri—an effective, aggressive and principled prosecutor whom I have known and deeply respected for over 35 years. Thank you, Assistant AG Annmarie Taggart, Heather Headley, and Kim Murphy for your extraordinary personal and professional commitme... Read more

By Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Congress took steps Wednesday to support the ongoing protests in Hong Kong against Chinese rule as the U.S. House cleared legislation to penalize a crack down on the demonstrators. The legislation passed, 417-1, and now goes to President Donald Trump. Rep. Tom Massie, R-Ky., cast the only no vote. “Congress is making it clear that beating, torturing and jailing democracy activists is wrong. We stand in solidarity with the people of Hong Kong,”... Read more

The following are remarks by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) during debate on the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 in the U.S. House of Representatives on November 20, 2019: Since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre thirty years ago, I’ve had the privilege of working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle—including and especially Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Frank Wolf—on human rights, the rule of law and democracy for the people of China. We have always believed that every person i... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) helped manage debate and final passage today of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act— which he had introduced in every Congress since 2014—while on the streets of Hong Kong students demonstrated amid escalating threats by the Chinese Communist government against Hong Kong’s residents. “Today, Hong Kong is burning. The status quo is no longer—the brutal government crackdown on democracy activists has escalated. Tragically, under President Xi Jinping, human r... Read more

Posted: Nov 16, 2019 10:46 PM EST Updated: Nov 16, 2019 11:26 PM EST Rep. Chris Smith held a press conference Saturday regarding the investigation into the death of a New Jersey football player. Braeden Bradforth, of Neptune, died last August after a football practice at Garden City Community College in Kansas. Bradforth's mother hopes that the incident will help save others students. "This fight was for Braeden at first but now it's for the rest of the kids," said Joanne Atkins-Ingram. His aut... Read more

Joanne Atkins-Ingram, mother of Braeden Bradforth, with U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) at her side along with her friend and attorney Jill Greene, spoke at a press conference today about the newly released independent investigation into the death of her son—a Neptune, NJ resident and student who died of exertional heat stroke after football practice at Garden City Community College (GCCC) in Kansas in August 2018. At some points holding back tears yet always showing a steely resolve, Braeden’s mom... Read more

Stephen Edelson, Asbury Park Press Published 2:13 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2019 | Updated 7:53 a.m. ET Nov. 16, 2019 It's not an easy read as the tragic events of Aug. 1, 2018 are laid out in painstaking detail by an independent investigation into the heatstroke death of former Neptune High School star Braeden Bradforth at Garden City (Kansas) Community College. Like the events that played out during the brutal conditioning test the 315-pound Bradforth was trying to complete on a hot evening. How one pl... Read more

By NJ101.5 Reporter Sergio Bichao| An independent investigation has pinned the death last year of a 19-year-old Jersey Shore athlete on a "striking lack of leadership" at a Kansas college. Braeden Bradforth, a Neptune High School graduate, died Aug. 1, 2018, from heat stroke after attending a high-intensity workout at Garden City Community College. A probe commissioned by the college's Board of Trustees in May concluded last month that Bradforth's death could have been prevented if the school ha... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said today that, “the report summarizing the independent investigation into the death of Braeden Bradforth is utterly heartbreaking in that it confirms that Braeden’s death was 100 percent preventable. “The investigator found that ‘a striking lack of leadership’ by Garden City Community College officials ‘set off a series of events that ended with the death of Braeden Bradforth.’ I can only imagine how difficult this is for Braeden’s mom, Joanne, to read; yet it is exactl... Read more

By Steve Strunsky | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com A law firm hired by the Kansas junior college where a former Neptune High School football player died of heat stroke on his first day of practice last year found “a striking lack of leadership” by the college officials and coaches leading up to 19-year-old Braeden Bradforth’s death 1,500 miles from home. The Los Angeles-based firm, Lewis Brisbois LLP, which delivered its withering critique in a report made public Thursday by Bradforth’s mother, al... Read more