Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today announced that beach replenishment contractor Weeks Marine will return to Point Pleasant Beach, perhaps as early as this week, and pump additional sand in sections that experienced significant erosion during severe May weather. “The Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) informed me that it negotiated a $3.6 million contract modification to get the dredges back to Point Pleasant Beach,” said Smith. “This is the largest contract of its kind in the history of the U.S. Army C... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Global Human Rights and Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, welcomed today’s release of the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report. “The State Department’s annual report on religious freedom is critical for the shaping of U.S. policy and priorities,” said Smith, author of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2016, which gave the State Department expanded authority an... Read more

The author of America’s landmark human trafficking law, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), called the 2019 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released today by the Trump Administration “honest, tough, comprehensive—a game-changer.” Each year, pursuant to Smith’s law—the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 (P.L. 106-386)—the State Department assesses every country’s record on sex and labor trafficking, and focuses on prevention of trafficking, protection of victims, and prosecution of traffi... Read more

Bipartisan, bicameral legislation named to honor Samantha Josephson—a senior at the University of South Carolina who was kidnapped and brutally murdered by a man pretending to be her Uber driver—was introduced in both the House and Senate today to establish needed protections for ride-share customers across the country. Named Sami’s Law, the bill, authored by Republican Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) with lead Democratic cosponsor, Rep. Tom Suozzi (NY-03) in the House, HR 3262, and led in the Senate b... Read more

(Washington, D.C)—U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the Chair and Cochair respectively of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), along with CECC Commissioner and former Chair, U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) today reintroduced the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, bicameral and bipartisan legislation that reaffirms the U.S. commitment to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law at a time when these freedoms and Hong K... Read more

By Mollie Simon - USA Today Network - A bipartisan group of legislators has introduced a bill in both the U.S. House and Senate to honor Samantha Josephson, a University of South Carolina student who was murdered in March. Josephson was killed after getting into a vehicle she thought was her Uber, investigators have said. Nathaniel Rowland has been charged with murder and kidnapping in the case. If enacted, the bill proposed on Friday would require front license plates and illuminated windshield... Read more

By Jerry Carino the Asbury Park Press USA Today Network - New Jersey It’s called the “Tick Act,” and it would fuel the fight against Lyme disease and other tick- and vectorborne diseases to the tune of $180 million over six years. But will this bill make it through Congress, despite bipartisan sponsorship in both houses? “We have very strong advocates in Congress who will be fighting to get these monies through,” said Wall resident Pat Smith, a leading advocate for Lyme patients and member of th... Read more

Following a newly released report on disaster response from the nonpartisan Government and Accountability Office (GAO), and after a spate of destructive tornadoes in the Midwest and the start of the 2019 hurricane season, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, introduced legislation to help Americans before, during and after natural disasters strike. U.S. Representatives Jim Langevin (D-RI-2) and Chris Smith (R-NJ-4... Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) commended a dozen students from the Fourth Congressional District who will soon be leaving to attend the nation’s prestigious military academies. A reception Saturday afternoon was hosted for the future cadets and midshipmen, and their families, as they prepare for four years of college at the military service academies. “It was hard work that got you here, it will take persistence, commitment, courage and devotion to God and our country to succeed,” Smith said to th... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the new information provided by the AP, who reviewed emails showing chaos before Braeden Bradforth’s death: “The documents obtained by Roxana Hegeman underscore again the need for a completely independent and transparent investigation of the death of Braeden Bradforth. Reading about how Braeden suffered in his last and, likely, his most excruciating hour of life demands a comprehensive examination that will go wherever the fac... Read more