“I am unalterably opposed to oil and gas drilling and exploration off New Jersey’s coastline, the first step of which is seismic airgun blasting,” Rep. Smith said today in response to the Administration’s announcement that it would approve requests for seismic airgun blasting off the Atlantic Coast. “Not here, not now, not ever,” said Smith who is working with a multi-state bipartisan group of Members to halt oil and gas exploration off the Atlantic Coast. Smith has signed on to a letter—with 93... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the House Global Human Rights Subcommittee, will hold a hearing on reviewing international child abduction on Monday, December 10. Parents of internationally abducted children will testify, as well as the executive director of a non-profit dedicated to returning children wrongfully abducted by a parent to Japan. “Left-behind parents, whose children have been abducted to a foreign country by an estranged spouse, were heartened when the Sean and David Goldman A... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), who has fought long and hard to protect and expand critical missions at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, appeared with military leaders, federal, state, and local officials, and others on Monday at the groundbreaking of a major construction project that will begin a significant new chapter in the history of the Joint Base. “Today we celebrate and break ground on the first construction project for the newest mission at the Joint Base that is critical to our national secu... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) issued the following statement on the passing of President George H.W. Bush: “President Bush was not only a hero of World War II—brave, tenacious, fearless and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism under fire—but he was also an extraordinary family man who deeply loved his wife Barbara and family, and spent his entire public life pursuing peace and an end to the Cold War. He inspired selfless public service—a thousand points of light—and generosity and compas... Read more

At the White House World AIDS Day event on Thursday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) praised the life-saving success of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) after his five-year, $30 billion extension of PEPFAR passed the Senate on Wednesday. “The Trump Administration’s 2018 PEPFAR Report to Congress highlights the urgency of the HIV/AIDS crisis and affirms that we must continue to be proactive in addressing this epidemic,” Smith said. “I am happy to be able to say that Congress is act... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith, co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, delivered excerpts of the following remarks at a hearing he chaired on "The Communist Party's Crackdown on Religion in China" on November 28: The current assault on religion in China is the most comprehensive attempt to manipulate and control religious communities since the Cultural Revolution. What is happening under Xi Jinping’s leadership is a systematic effort to transform the very nature of some religious communi... Read more

BY VIN EBENAU - Jersey Shore Congressman Chris Smith's (NJ-4th District-R) legislation to provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria and hold ISIS perpetrators accountable passed the house on Tuesday night and now heads to President Donald Trump's desk to be signed into law. The Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018 (HR-390) will authorize and direct the administration to... Fund entities, including faith-based ones, that are providing humanitarian,... Read more

BY ISAAC AVILUCEA - U.S. Rep. Chris Smith toured Trenton Water Works’ digs Monday, as part of his renewed pledge to help the troubled water utility secure federal funding to offset millions in improvement projects and system upgrades. Smith stopped by The Trentonian to chat about the two-hour-long guided tour, led by a convoy from the mayor’s office, that started out at TWW headquarters and wound to the water filtration plant on the Delaware River. The longtime Republican congressman, elected th... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) legislation to provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria, and hold ISIS perpetrators accountable—HR 390, the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018—passed the House on Tuesday night and now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law, after over two years in the making. “When genocide or other atrocity crimes are perpetrated, the United States should direct humanitarian, stabilization, and recovery aid to enable the... Read more

On Tuesday evening, the House passed Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) legislation, HR 6207, the Democratic Republic of the Congo Democracy and Accountability Act of 2018, which would promote free and fair elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). “This bill could not be more timely,” Rep. Smith, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on Africa, stated on the House Floor before the legislation was voted on. “Next month, just before Christmas, the country is scheduled to vote ... Read more