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

The following is a statement by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) on the extradition of Judge Neringa Venckiene: “I strongly object to the extradition notice issued last week against Lithuanian anti-human trafficking and anti-corruption hero, Judge Neringa Venckiene,” said Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on her challenge to an extradition request from the Lithuanian government. “She exposed a trafficking ring involving government officials in Lithuani... Read more

Today, October 21, 2019, the Problem Solvers Caucus praised the passage of H.R. 724, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act of 2019, which utilized the new House “Consensus Calendar” to help get a debate and vote on the House floor. This legislation creates a federal animal cruelty statute prohibiting the most heinous acts of abuse which can occur beyond the reach of state cruelty laws. The initiative received priority consideration on the House floor by having more than 290 bipart... Read more

By David Wildstein, NJ Globe - Uber and Lyft were no-shows at a congressional hearing today on legislation sponsored by Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton) to protect ride-share users from sexual assault and other crimes Smith’s bill comes seven months after Sami Josephson, a Robbinsville resident, was murdered by a predator pretending to be an Uber driver. The parents of the woman, Seymour and Marci Josephson, worked with Smith to create “Sami’s Law,” which would push for all states to have fro... Read more

Fox 5 New York, also known as WNYW TV, aired its an installment in its “Lyme and Reason” series in October. “Lyme Disease and the Power of Innovation,” looks at hopeful developments in the realm of Lyme disease. There are interviews with patients, advocates, authors, policy makers and politicians. Congressman Chris Smith was interviewed about his work on investigating the possible origins of Lyme disease as a military weapon research program. Click below to watch. Smith's interview is at approxi... Read more