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

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