Congressman Chris Smith took to the House floor tonight to bring the plight of a nine-year-old American boy held in Brazil to the attention of the Congress.
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Congressman Chris Smith said the Navy’s issuance of a record of decision (ROD) for a plan to build a public road to the Laurelwood Housing Area on Earle Naval Weapons Station is yet another in a series of mistakes at Navy Earle.
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Congressman Chris Smith, Ranking member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, addressed the World Uyghur Congress today about human rights and the treatment of the Uyghur people and the government of China.
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Rep. Smith of the House Foreign Affairs Committee offered an amendment to authorize an office for Global Women’s Issues designed to coordinate and advise on activities, policies, programs and funding related to women’s empowerment, internationally.
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Congressman Smith, a founding member and co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Bosnia, took to the House floor today speak out in strong support of H. Res. 171.
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Congressman Smith today introduced the Global Online Freedom Act, a bipartisan bill that will prevent U.S. information technology companies from working with repressive foreign governments that seek to conduct Internet surveillance on its own citizens in order to find, capture, convict and often torture them for engaging in democracy promotion and human rights advocacy on the Internet.
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The House of Representatives today passed House Resolution 401, “Honoring the life and recognizing the far-reaching accomplishments of the Honorable Jack Kemp, Jr.”
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Congressman Chris Smith said that the annual report released today by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) shows that freedom of religion is increasingly violated in many countries all over the world.
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