The independent report on the death of Braeden Bradforth, a 19-year-old student athlete from Neptune, NJ who died after football practice on Aug. 1, 2018 at Garden City Community College (GCCC) in Kansas, was released by GCCC this week. It was completed on Oct. 28, 2019 by Rod Waters, a Consultant in Sports Medicine. To view a copy of the released report, click here. ### Read more

The following opinion piece was published by the Wall Street Journal on Nov. 11, 2019. By Chris Smith Nov. 11, 2019 6:43 pm ET The governments of Kenya and Denmark and the United Nations Population Fund are attempting to hijack the U.N.’s global population and development work to support an extreme pro-abortion agenda. On Tuesday UNFPA opens the three-day Nairobi Summit, 25 years after the International Conference on Population Development in Cairo. As a member of Congress I attended the ICPD, w... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and other members of Congress this week marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 7, and the 100-year mark of the birth of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov. 9. “When I was elected to Congress, the extremely dark cloud of communism hung over the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and many places in Latin America and Asia," said Smith. "Every communist country was a significant threat to peace and security. Communist governments victimized their own... Read more

By Vin Ebenau WOBM Morning Anchor - Jersey Shore Congressman Chris Smith (R - Mercer, Monmouth and Ocean) has introduced a new plan to combat Lyme Disease which affects so many people across the state and country. The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) new national research multi-part plan includes five pillars: expands knowledge of tickborne diseases, develops rapid diagnostic testing, identifies treatment success and human biomarkers of persistent symptoms, develops new treatments and eval... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith visited with students at Shrewsbury Borough School on Obre Place in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County. Brent MacConnell, the Superintendent and Principal, hosted Smith for the Nov. 5 event. The congressman met with about 115 students in attendance from the 7th and 8th grades. The students asked thoughtful questions about Congress, and federal government, legislation and other issues. Read more

By Cassidy Morrison | November 05, 2019 After working nearly 30 years to pass major legislation to research treatments for Lyme disease, the tick-borne infection that causes more than 300,000 illnesses each year, Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey is newly optimistic about a breakthrough. The Senate Health Committee voted Thursday on a bipartisan basis to advance the upper chamber's version of Smith's bill after Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine renamed it to honor the late Sen. Kay ... Read more

By Jerry Carino of the Asbury Park Press WALL - Brian Dashore was a second-grader attending Little League practice one day when, seemingly out of nowhere, he collapsed. Assuming fatigue, the Marlboro resident went home and slept. “The next day I woke up with severe pain in my hips and legs,” he said. “I was like that for two years.” At first doctors suspected juvenile arthritis. Then cancer. Finally, after 10 false negatives, he tested positive for Lyme disease. By then, much of the damage was d... Read more

The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday passed a bipartisan resolution, H.Res. 649, introduced by Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ), a senior member of the committee, and Congressman Albio Sires (D-NJ), Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade, commending the Inter-American Foundation for its 50-year effort to improve the economic and social development of countries in the Western Hemisphere. “IAF prizes community-led projects and small-scale ent... Read more

The following are excerpts of remarks by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Republican manager of debate of H.Res. 296 on the Floor of the House of Representatives, on October 29, 2019: When the term genocide was created in 1944 to describe the systematic destruction of an entire people, its author Raphael Lemkin explained the term by saying, ‘‘it was the sort of thing Hitler did to the Jews and the Turks did to the Armenians.’’ On ordering the invasion of Poland in 1939, Adolf Hilter said: “[w]ho, a... Read more

Patients who suffer from Lyme disease joined advocacy leaders and U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) at a press conference Friday to mark the launching of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) new national research strategy to combat Lyme disease. Priorities in the NIH multipart plan include the five pillars of: expanding knowledge of tickborne diseases; developing rapid diagnostic testing; identifying treatment success and human biomarkers of persistent symptoms; developing new treatments; and ev... Read more