Rep. Smith has led an effort to call on the U.S. Administration to give public and diplomatic support to the persecuted members of the religious group Falun Gong in the People’s Republic of China. Read more

Congressman Smith spoke on the House floor after a proposed amendment to the 2010 Foreign Operations Appropriations bill to reinstate the Mexico City Policy was blocked by the House Rules Committee. Read more

In a nifty bit of strategizing, Rep. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., this week got the House Rules Committee to accept an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the federal government to complete a comprehensive report of costs and security measures before the Navy proceeds with plans to allow civilians to move into housing at Naval Weapons Station Earle. Read more

U.S. Rep. Smith said today that a provision in the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bill now includes $500,000 in funding for the Trenton-based nonprofit community development group Isles Inc. Read more

Among the security, infrastructure and emergency services items in the multi-faceted federal homeland security funding bill passed by Congress today, is one provision specifically designated to provide some assistance and relief to the City of Trenton as it continues its ongoing work to fortify the water filtration plant and mitigate flooding and contamination risk. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith announces that a key House appropriations subcommittee will include funding to allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take a greater role in ongoing efforts to fix environmental hazards posed by Wreck Pond in Monmouth County. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith announced that the House of Representatives has adopted an amendment he offered to the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2647) to require a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of the Navy’s controversial proposal to open the Laurelwood housing complex on Naval Weapons Station Earle (NWS Earle), the largest munitions depot on the East Coast. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said a report by the U.S. State Department was released today on the human trafficking of women, children and laborers around the world shows some improvements over the 2008 report, but also demonstrates there is much more work to do. Read more

Congressman Chris Smith today addressed his colleagues from the floor of the House of Representatives to offer his support of H.Res. 529, a resolution condemning the June 10th violent attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum as a despicable murder and anti-Semitic act that took the life of Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Read more

U.S. Rep. Chris Smith said that the actions of a judge on Brazil’s Supreme Court earlier this week which have blocked the return home of an American boy is an outrageous interference that demands a U.S. response. Read more