"Hong Kong’s Summer of Discontent and U.S. Policy Responses,” is the title of a congressional hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China to be held Tuesday, said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a member of the commission. The hearing will examine recent developments in Hong Kong and the future of U.S.-Hong Kong relations in light of the ongoing demonstrations and the escalating tensions caused by police violence and threats by the Chinese government against Hong Kong’s autonomy. Wi... Read more

Excerpts from Congressman Smith's remarks from the Special Order commemorating 9/11: Everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing—I was here in Washington chairing a Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing—when a group of cowards hijacked 4 airliners in order to perpetrate the worst act of terrorism in American history. Nearly 700 New Jerseyans lost their lives that day. No-one remembers the shock, horror and numbing sorrow more, however, than the families and close friends of the vic... Read more

Supporters of Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) bipartisan legislation, H.R. 2435, the Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act, converged on Capitol Hill this week to advocate for the bill, which will provide increased access to federal lands for the purposes of veterans’ medical therapy. H.R. 2435 would empower a newly created task force to identify barriers veterans face when accessing public lands for treatment, and provide within one year recommendations to Congress on ways to eliminate those ba... Read more

– Noting the importance of funding programs and services for the more than 3.5 million people living with autism spectrum disorder, the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders have given their support to the Autism CARES Act of 2019, introduced by 4th District U.S. Rep. Chris Smith. "As a lifelong educator, I have seen the difference early intervention can make," said Ocean County Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari. "This legislation which would reauthorize federal programs that assist children, adult... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith held a community meeting in Point Pleasant Beach, NJ on Monday to discuss the impact of the 22-foot dunes recently built by the U.S Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) along the commercial areas directly contiguous to the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk. The adjacent boardwalk commercial areas all have a new, lower 18-foot dune built by the Corps. PHOTO SLIDES AT LEFT The Sept. 9 meeting was held at the Arugula Oceanview restaurant on Ocean Avenue, which has seen a 40 percent ... Read more

Today, Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, along with Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA), introduced H.R. 4270, the PROTECT Hong Kong Act – a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives to prohibit commercial exports of certain nonlethal crowd control items and defense articles and services to the Hong Kong Police Force. “I am deeply concerned that American-made police equipment is being used to violently crack down on... Read more

Representative Chris Smith, Co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission (TLHRC) and the prime sponsor of the bipartisan and bicameral Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, issued the following statement about the demonstrations in Hong Kong and the escalating threats by the Chinese Communist government against Hong Kong: “If the Hong Kong government is truly backing off its confrontational extradition efforts—and we hope this is for real—then we might be at the start of lasting relief... Read more

BY SUSANNE CERVENKA, APP STAFF WRITER - Walter S. McAfee dreamed of getting his doctorate, but his physics department chairman suggested he take industrial arts instead. After all, that would be more beneficial considering it was likely McAfee would teach in a black college in the South, McAfee told the Asbury Park Press in a 1982 interview, recalling the conversation he had had when he was pursuing his master's degree at Ohio State University in the 1930s. Walter S. McAfee (Photo: U.S. Army) Mc... Read more

More than 200 people gathered outside the U.S. Post Office located on Main Street in Belmar Friday at a ceremony to rename the building in honor of Dr. Walter S. McAfee, a brilliant mathematician who spent several decades working at Camp Evans and Fort Monmouth on critical scientific and national security projects. “Dr. McAfee’s breakthrough research and mathematical theories led to bouncing radio signals off the moon’s surface. His unique work served as the forerunner for satellite communicatio... Read more

BY APP WRITER JERRY CARINO - Reyansh Parmar’s favorite things are stacked in a corner of his bedroom. There’s his Finn McMissile pillow from the movie “Cars 2.” There’s a big red teddy bear. There is the plastic kitchenette he played with every day, cooking daddy invisible meals. But Reyansh isn’t there anymore. He hasn’t been home in seven years, since his mother took him to India and refused to come back. He’s 10 now, and father Ravi Parmar has been fighting a lonely, desperate battle to reuni... Read more