With a stroke of his pen today, President Obama signed into law Congressmen Chris Smith’s amendment to require the Department of Defense (DOD) to launch an investigation into the plight of U.S. service men and women who, along with their children, suffer from intra-family international child abduction, and outline what DOD is doing to help these military services members. Read more

President Barrack Obama this afternoon signed into law legislation written by Congressman Chris Smith to require a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of the U.S. Navy’s controversial proposal to open the Laurelwood military housing complex on Naval Weapons Station Earle (NWS Earle), the largest munitions depot on the East Coast, to the general public. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith today spoke at the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight's congressional hearing on "Concerns Regarding Possible Collusion in Northern Ireland: Police and Paramilitary Groups." Read more

Congressman Chris Smith and Congresswoman Kay Granger, co-chairs of the Congressional Human Trafficking Caucus, today asked the U.S. Attroney Genteral Eric Holder to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) activities, including possible involvement with actual sex trafficking ventures. Read more

U.S. Rep. Smith, an executive member of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, unveiled a resolution at a Commission hearing today that recognizes the importance of inter-religious dialogue and the protection of religious freedom in Pakistan. Read more

U.S. Representative Chris Smith said the House approved a House-Senate appropriations bill that gives the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) the authority and new funds to support local efforts to improve Assunpink Creek and revitalize a closed factory. Read more

Congressman Smith, a senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Ranking Member on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, today called on free people every where to reject China’s self-aggrandizing “celebrations” of its 60 years of Communist rule. Read more

The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a House-Senate appropriations bill that gives the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the authority and new funds to boost local efforts aimed at combating the significant environmental hazards associated with drainage problems at Wreck Pond. Read more

The case of an American father who has been arrested in Japan for attempting to regain access to his children, taken to Japan by his ex-wife in violation of a U.S. court order, is helping to raise awareness of the increasing problem of international parental child abduction and the heartbreak and frustration suffered by the parents left behind, said U.S. Rep. Chris Smith. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith announced today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded a grant to St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton. Read more