Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) today announced a federal grant of more than $1 million over the course of the next three years to help teenagers and young adults facing housing insecurity. The grant, the “Transitional Living Program (TLP) for Runaway and Homeless Youth,” is offered through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “The mission of Ocean’s Harbor House (OHH) is one of changing lives, as the organization enables teens and young adults to have a safe place to live while they finis... Read more

“President Trump’s bold action today to address the root causes of the outrageous and unfair prices paid for prescription drugs by Americans are much welcomed and long overdue—the status quo of the American consumer subsidizing the global market is over,” said Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ). On May 12, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order to establish Most-Favored-Nation Pricing for pharmaceutical products, ensuring Americans pay fair prices compared to similarly developed nations, leading ... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) released the following statement regarding the impending government shutdown, a direct result of Senate Democrats’ refusal to compromise and pass the clean continuing resolution (CR) that was adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives on September 19th: “Nearly two weeks ago, House Republicans fulfilled their promises to the American electorate by delivering and passing a short-term CR that funds the government’s operations while legislators wrap up negotiations on rem... Read more

President Trump signs Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ)'s Frederick Douglass TVPRA of 2018 into law on January 9, 2019. Today, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a senior lawmaker and author of the landmark anti-human trafficking legislation, welcomed the release of the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report—mandated by Smith’s Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000—which ranks countries’ efforts to prevent human trafficking, protect victims, and prosecute traffickers: “I wholehea... Read more

“In 2015 I chaired a hearing focused on how President Obama 'squandered the opportunity' to demand Chesimard’s extradition to the United States” Rep. Chris Smith (R-Manchester) reacts to the news of the death of domestic terrorist Joanne Chesimard in Cuba: Smith said, “Joanne Chesimard brutally murdered New Jersey State Trooper Foerster on May 3, 1973 after a routine traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike and was given immunity from serving her life sentence by Cuba’s dictator Fidel Castro. The... Read more

By Chris Smith Published September 28, 2025 Joanne Chesimard brutally murdered New Jersey State Trooper Foerster on May 3, 1973 after a routine traffic stop on the New Jersey Turnpike and was given immunity from serving her life sentence by Cuba’s dictator Fidel Castro. The failure to extradite this fugitive domestic terrorist denied justice to Trooper Foerster’s wife and family and to his New Jersey State Police family. Justice was delayed for half a century— now forever denied—by the failure t... Read more

“President Trump did an outstanding job of calling the United Nations to account on its most grievous offenses and obvious failings, including combating antisemitism,” said Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), who for over 20 years served as the Chair or Ranking Member of the congressional panel responsible for oversight of the United Nations (U.N.) and served four times as Congressional Delegate to the U.N. “President Trump—whose personal interventions have led to peaceful resolutions of conflicts around ... Read more

Tonight, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) is joining Ocean County elected officials and local leaders in condemning the assassination of Charlie Kirk and honoring all victims of political and social violence, including Iryna Zarutska and former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Melissa Hortman, at a widely-attended candlelight vigil in Berkeley Township, New Jersey. Hosted by Ocean County GOP Chairman George Gilmore, the vigil is also being attended by Congressman Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), S... Read more

By N.J. News Report The Veterans Affairs clinic on Hooper Avenue in Toms River will be christened the Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell Clinic in honor the hometown hero and Army veteran who fought in World War II from the Normandy invasion through the Battle of Bulge. “The entire Board of Commissioners is exceptionally pleased to learn that the President has signed a congressional bill naming the VA clinic after Toms River resident and Army 2LT Bud Lomell,” Frank Sadeghi, deputy director of the Ocean Cou... Read more

By Nick Mordowanec Published September 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM EDT A congressman has introduced legislation honoring American prisoners Nelson Wells, Jr., and Dawn Michelle Hunt, each of whom has been locked up in Chinese prisons for over a decade, and urging their release after their long-standing claims of being wrongfully detained. Why It Matters Dawn Michelle Hunt, originally from Chicago, has been in Guangdong Women's Prison since her 2014 arrest for drug smuggling—a charge that she, her broth... Read more