The Chinese government’s efforts to steal sensitive personal and financial data, most recently from U.S. government employees and particularly those with security clearances, is a national security concern and the reason Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) introduced legislation (H.R. 4235) to strictly review efforts by Chinese companies to acquire U.S. financial service firms specializing in money transfer or other forms of payment.
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In conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) will hold a VA Claims Clinic on Friday, November 17. Veterans, service-members, and their dependents can obtain important information there about their VA benefits. “I am committed to protecting veteran’s benefits and programs, and to helping ensure that the brave men and women who have defended our country and those who are serving our country today, continue to have access to the resources and care that they...
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As President Trump begins a two-day visit to Vietnam on Friday, Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) today released a letter urging the President to address Vietnam’s “dismal human rights record” by making any expansion of U.S. economic and strategic cooperation contingent upon concrete improvements in human rights. The bipartisan letter was signed by 20 Republican and Democratic members of the House of Representatives, including Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) gave the following opening statement at a Nov. 9, 2017 hearing he chaired entitled “Resolving the Political Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” held by the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Human Rights: The Democratic Republic of the Congo was supposed to conduct elections one year ago this month in order to achieve the required transition of political power by December 19. However, after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, t...
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Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) will be honored Wednesday evening for his tireless advocacy on behalf of children diagnosed with autism, at the inaugural Autism Gala at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
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A bill authored by Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) to help protect wandering children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and elderly Alzheimer’s patients has been re-introduced in the House.
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The challenges facing the people and the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will be the topic of a hearing entitled “Resolving the Political Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” set to be held Thursday by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), chairman of the House subcommittee on Africa and global human rights. “The government of Joseph Kabila delayed the required 2016 presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in which he was forbidden by the consti...
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Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) is leading a bipartisan coalition of over 60 House members in asking the Administration to support American victims of terrorism seeking redress at the Supreme Court.
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