By Susanne Cervenka, APP Staff Writer - Two Monmouth County small businesses received a combined $450,000 in federal innovation grants that the recipients say will revolutionize how students learn sciences and social skills. Small Factory Innovations in Fair Haven and Mgenuity in the Lincroft section of Middletown were each awarded $225,000 from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grant program, according to an announcement from Congressman Chris Smith. SCHOOLS: Bi... Read more

By Dan Radel,of The Asbury Park Press For the first time, the U.S. secretary of state described the slaughter of Christians, Yazidis and other minorities at the hands of ISIS as genocide. U.S. Congressman Chris Smith (R-N.J.) is calling for more U.S. and international aid to Christian refugees living in Erbil, a city located in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Smith, who chairs both the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the House panel on global human rights and international org... Read more

By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman, of The Trentonian - As millions of people around the globe celebrate a merry Christmas, Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey has made a recent trip to Iraq to meet with Christian survivors of a nearly three-year-long ISIS-fueled genocide. “This Christmas season, the survival of Christians in Iraq, where they have lived for almost 2,000 years, is at stake,” Smith, a Republican who represents parts of Mercer, Ocean and Monmouth counties, said Tuesday in a statement. “I h... Read more

BY CRUX STAFF Congressman Chris Smith, chairman of the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organization Subcommittee, and of the bi-partisan Helsinki Commission, is asking questions about the fate of Iraqi Christians – not just in Washington, but in Iraq itself. ERBIL, Iraq - American foreign policy in Iraq has had its share of missteps, and one quiet casualty of this policy has been the country’s ever smaller Christian population. Now Congressman Chris Smith, chairman o... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, released the following statement in response to the anti-Israel vote held today by the U.N.: “The Obama Administration today turned its back on one of our closest allies, the state of Israel. By refusing to veto today's U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements, the President directly contributed to the malicious international campaign to delegitimize the Jewish state. While the U.... Read more

Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), author of the 2004 legislative amendment that created the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism and member of the steering committee of the Interparliamentary Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, released the following statement in response to the postponed anti-Israel resolution put before the UN Security Council: “Although Egypt postponed today’s planned vote in the United Nations Security Council on its resolution condemning Israeli settlem... Read more

BY JONATHAN SALANT OF STAR LEDGER/NJ.COM - "To my shock, they have not gotten support from the administration," said Smith, chairman of the House Foreign Relations subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations. "They need help." Iraqi troops are trying to repel the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, from the territory they control. The Islamic State has massacred Christians and others under their rule. The Christian community in the region dates back... Read more

Just days before Christmas, a leading human rights lawmaker, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) went to Iraq to witness first-hand the plight of Christians who escaped ISIS into the Erbil area of the Kurdistan region and the failure of the Obama Administration to help them. After meeting with Christian families and leaders, and officials from the U.S., other Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) participating States and the United Nations, Smith said he returns to Washington to lead C... Read more

CNS - A bill authored by Rep. Chris Smith, R-New Jersey, that will give the presidential administration and the U.S. State Department new tools, resources and training to help counter extremism and combat a worldwide escalation of persecution of religious minorities has been signed by President Barack Obama. The Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act was approved Dec. 13 by the U.S. House of Representatives and signed into law Dec. 16. “From China and Vietnam to Syria and Nigeria, we are... Read more

4:11 p.m. EST December 16, 2016 - ASBURY PARK PRESS - Neptune, NJ The 21st Century Cures Act provides us all with an example of how government should work, and how effective and productive bipartisanship can be. Now if lawmakers could only apply some of that same spirit to ease the bitterness surrounding Obamacare that threatens to undermine much of the good work that could come out of the Cures Act, we’d all be much better off. The newly signed $6.3 billion legislation includes several initiat... Read more