The powerful House Judiciary Committee today overwhelmingly approved the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” H.R. 3, which will permanently prohibit taxpayer funding of abortion across all federal programs. The bipartisan bill has over 210 cosponsors and will reduce the need for numerous separate policies to prevent government funding for abortion. Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), the author of the bill and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, was grateful to the committee f... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith met today with Monmouth County Clerk Claire French, who is a Board of Trustees member of the InfoAge Science and History Learning Center in Wall, N.J., once the site of the U.S. Army's post, Camp Evans. French presented Smith with an historical account of Camp Evans, entitled "Camp Evans: The Untold Story." "The rich history of Camp Evans and the men and women who served their country there must never be forgotten," Smith said. "Though the camp is now closed, it lives on ... Read more

A leading human rights lawmaker today said that left behind parents whose American children have been taken and retained in Japan “are at risk of being left behind again” if the Obama Administration does not dramatically change its strategy and directly work toward an agreement with Japan to resolve current cases of international abduction. At a Capitol Hill hearing, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee with immediate jurisdiction on global human right... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith questioned U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at a congressional hearing this week of the House Foreign Affairs Committee about human rights in China, specifically about its brutal one-child per couple policy. At the hearing Tuesday, Smith (NJ-04), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee with immediate jurisdiction on global human rights, questioned Secretary Clinton on the Obama Administration’s position on forced sterilizations and forced abortions in C... Read more

"A U.S. congressman left Tokyo on Wednesday after a whirlwind trip aimed at rallying Japanese support for an international child abduction treaty, an issue that has sparked a growing debate in Japan and abroad. While lobbying members of the Diet and other government officials this week to ratify the 1981 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Rep. Chris Smith said Tokyo and Washington must resolve the current cases of parental kidnapping in Japan involving U.S. c... Read more

"Mr. Chairman, it's time Americans, especially policymakers, health officials, the media, and law enforcement, took a second and critical look at Planned Parenthood," Smith said. "Not only does Planned Parenthood vigorously lobby and litigate against parental notification and parental consent laws, thus enabling secret abortions for very, very young girls to be procured in their clinics, but now we've learned from recent undercover taped investigations at several of its clinics that Planned Pare... Read more

Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) today spoke out on the floor of the House of Representatives against U.S. taxpayer dollars being spent to support the United Nations Population Fund. "In China, that coercion is extended by brute force to all women—any mother caught without explicit government authorization to give birth is coerced to abort her baby," Smith said to his colleagues. "Since 1979, brothers and sisters have been illegal in China as part of the barbaric one child per couple policy. And ... Read more

The New Jersey Congressional Delegation today sent a letter to the US. Department of Transportation (USDOT) seeking relief of a $271 million charge the federal government seeks to impose on New Jersey for the now-canceled Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) project. In a letter addressed to USDOT Secretary Ray LaHood, Smith, the Dean of the N.J. congressional delegation, and the other 14 members of the Garden State’s delegation pointed out that Amtrak is planning the design of a new “Gateway” tunn... Read more

"Chairman Dennis Bone, President Tom Bracken and the entire Chamber leadership, on behalf of the 13 Member House delegation, let me note that we are deeply grateful for your extraordinary leadership, vision and proven commitment to building a better and more prosperous New Jersey." "Prosperity, as we know, doesn’t just happen. Business leaders make it happen. You create the ways and means to feed, clothe, connect, heal, house, and entertain our families." "For a century now, the New Jersey Chamb... Read more

The bitter winter cold was no deterrent to tens of thousands of pro-life Americans, including religious leaders, students, families and elected members of Congress, said Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), who addressed members of the crowd, most of whom traveled from across the nation to mark the anniversary of Roe v Wade decision. "America got another wake-up call last week with the arrest of an abortionist in Philadelphia who was charged in the killing of a woman and seven babies who were aborte... Read more